Trachops ehrhardti

Felten, 1956

Atlantic Forest Fringe-lipped Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Phyllostominae
Tribe : Macrophyllini
Genus : Trachops

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Felten, H. 1956-09-15. Eine neue Unterart von _Trachops cirrhosus_ (Mammalia, Chiroptera) aus Brasilien. Senckenbergiana biologica 37(5-6):369-370.

Original name as described

Trachops cirrhosus ehrhardti

Other common names

Frog-eating Bat · Fringe-lipped Bat

Type material

SMF:MAMM:11716

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

split from T. cirrhosus

Taxonomy notes citation

Leite, Y., Gregorin, R., Tavares, V., Monteiro, C., Prado, J., Chiquito, E., ... & Ditchfield, A. (2019). Taxonomia integrativa revela diversidade críptica em Trachops cirrhosus (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae). Dissertation. · Fonseca, B. D. S., Soto-Centeno, J. A., Simmons, N. B., Ditchfield, A. D., & Leite, Y. L. (2024). A species complex in the iconic frog-eating bat Trachops cirrhosus (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) with high variation in the heart of the Neotropics. American Museum Novitates, 2024(4021), 1-27. · Camacho, M. A., Menendez-Guerrero, P. A., Horvath, B., Cadar, D., & Murienne, J. (2024). A polytypic species revisited: Phylogenetic and morphological variation, taxonomic status, and geographical distribution of Trachops (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Journal of Mammalogy, gyae067.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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