Artibeus amplus

Handley, 1987

Large Fruit-eating Bat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Handley, C.O., Jr. 1987-12-31. New species of mammals from northern South America: fruit-eating bats, genus Artibeus Leach. Fieldiana Zoology (n.s.)39:163-172.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4465288

Original name as described

Artibeus amplus

Other common names

Giant Artibeus · Giant Fruit-eating Bat

Type material

USNM:MAMM:440932

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f21f91e2-3438-4d63-9eea-4270342e76e5

Type locality

"Kasmera, 21 km SW Machiques, Estado Zulia, Venezuela, 270 m, in a damp cave in a cliff across the Río Yasa from the Kasmera Biological Station, eastern foothills of the Sierra de Perijá."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia · Guyana · Suriname · Venezuela · Brazil?

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004999

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 1 name and synonym.

Artibeus amplus

Handley, 1987

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

amplus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:440932

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

Kasmera, 21 km SW Machiques, Estado Zulia, Venezuela, 270 m, in a damp cave in a cliff across the Rio Yasa from the Kasmera Biological Station, eastern foothills of the Sierra de Perijá

Type locality

Venezuela: Zulia: 9°56′57″N, 72°45′11″W.

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f21f91e2-3438-4d63-9eea-4270342e76e5

Authority page

164

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4465288

Authority publication

Fieldiana Zoology

Name usages

Corbet & Hill (1991:66) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Koopman (1993:187) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
Koopman (1994:90) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
Lim, Genoways & Engstrom (2003:99, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52469575) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/30492)
Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #2121) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #2121) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:575) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004999) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/2121/22000620) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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