PHYLLOSTOMIDAE, Gray, 1825

Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Phyllostomidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 444-583 : 444

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6458594

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6715129

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A687BC-FFB1-FFB1-11F5-FE0AF85BF766

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Plazi

scientific name

PHYLLOSTOMIDAE
status

 

Family PHYLLOSTOMIDAE View in CoL

(NEW WORLD LEAF-NOSED BATS)

• Relatively small to medium-sized bats with a usually welldevelopedfleshy noseleat above nostrils; great variation nN size.

• 3.5-15. 5 cm. View Figure

• Nearctic and Neotropical Regions. View Figure

• Tropical rainforests, tropical dry forests, subtropical cloudforests, transformed landscapes, and deserts.

• 60 genera, 217 species, 295 taxa View Subdivision of the Phyllostomidae .

• 1 species Critically Endangered, 6 species Endangered, 7 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Phyllostomidae

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