Histiotus humboldti

Handley, 1996

Humboldt's Big-eared Brown Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Vespertilioninae
Tribe : Eptesicini
Genus : Histiotus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Handley, C.O., Jr. 1996-04-16. New species of mammals from northern South America: Bats of the genera Histiotus Gervais and Lasiurus Gray (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 109(1):1-9.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34644635

Original name as described

Histiotus humboldti

Other common names

Humboldt's Leaf-eared Bat

Type material

USNM:MAMM:370968

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/35a7b1a06-6006-4684-b562-53b79ed0719c

Type locality

"Los Venados, 4 km NNW Caracas, 10°32'N, 66°54'W, 1498 m, Distrito Federal, Venezuela."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Venezuela · Colombia · Ecuador

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005555

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Histiotus humboldti

Handley, 1996

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

humboldti

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:370968

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/35a7b1a06-6006-4684-b562-53b79ed0719c

Authority page

2

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34644635

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Name usages

  1. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #29606) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #29606) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  4. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:841) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  5. Cláudio, Novaes, Gardner, Nogueira, Wilson, Maldonado, Oliveira & Moratelli (2023:16) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/62645)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005555) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  7. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/29606/22046003) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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