Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 190

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scientific name	Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860
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Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860 View in CoL View at ENA . Revue Mag. Zool., Paris, (2) 12:429.

TYPE SPECIES: Phyllostoma lineatum E. Geoffroy, 1810 View in CoL .

COMMENTS: For a history of the nomeclature of this genus and reasons for using Platyrrhinus in place of Vampurops, see Gardner and Ferrell (1990) and Alberico and Velasco (1991).