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.

Original name as described

Plecotus velatus

Other common names

Tropical Leaf-eared Bat

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1997-1828

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru · Bolivia · Brazil · Paraguay · Argentina

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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