Histiotus velatus
(I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1824)
Tropical 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
Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, I. 1824b. Sur les vespertilions du Brésil. Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris 3:440–47.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5813767Original name as described
Plecotus velatus
Other common names
Tropical Leaf-eared Bat
Type material
MNHN-ZM-MO-1997-1828
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1997-1828Type locality
Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Peru · Bolivia · Brazil · Paraguay · Argentina
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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