Vampyressa villai

Garbino, Hernández-Canchola, León-Paniagua, & V. da C. Tavares, 2024

Villa's Little Yellow-eared Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Stenodermatinae
Tribe : Stenodermatini
Genus : Vampyressa

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Garbino, G.S.T., Hernández-Canchola, G., León-Paniagua, L.S. and Tavares, V. da C. 2024-03-01. A new Mexican endemic species of yellow-eared bat in the genus Vampyressa (Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatinae). Journal of Mammalogy 105(3):563-576.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae001

Original name as described

Vampyressa villai

Type material

MZFC:M:16012

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"México, Guerrero, Mpio. Cuautepec [= Municipio de Cuautepec], Coacoyulichán" (16°47ʹ40"N, 98°55ʹ60"W), 418 m above sea level."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Mexico

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Garbino, G. S., Hernández-Canchola, G., León-Paniagua, L., & Tavares, V. D. C. (2024). A new Mexican endemic species of yellow-eared bat in the genus Vampyressa (Phyllostomidae, Stenodermatinae). Journal of Mammalogy, gyae001.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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