Artibeus jamaicensis
Leach, 1821
Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat
Distribution :
Michoacan, Sinaloa, and Tamaulipas (Mexico) to Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, N Argentina, and E Brazil; Trinidad and Tobago; Greater and Lesser Antilles, S Bahamas. Perhaps Florida Keys
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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
Authority citation
Leach, W.E. 1821-06-21. The characters of seven genera of bats with foliaceous appendages to the nose. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13(1):73-82.
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Original name as described
Artibeus Jamaicensis
Other common names
Jamaican Artibeus
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:4a
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
Type locality
"Jamaica."
Biogeographic realm
Nearctic · Neotropic
Country distribution
Anguilla · Antigua and Barbuda · Aruba · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Colombia · Costa Rica · Cuba · Dominica · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Grenada · Guadeloupe · Guatemala · Haiti · Honduras · Jamaica · Martinique · Mexico · Montserrat · Nicaragua · Panama · Puerto Rico · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Sint Maarten · United States
Subregion distribution
USA(FL)
Distribution references
Genoways, H.H., Pedersen, S.C., Larsen, P.A., Kwiecinski, G.G. and Huebschman, J.J. 2007. Bats of Saint Martin, French West Indies/Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. Mastozoología Neotropical 14(2):169-188. a#9509
Taxonomy notes
previously included A. planirostris, A. aequatorialis, and A. schwartzi; includes triomylus, which was recently regarded as a distinct species
Taxonomy notes citation
Larsen, P.A., Hoofer, S.R., Bozeman, M.C., Pedersen, S.C., Genoways, H.H., Phillips, C.J., Pumo, D.E. and Baker, R.J. 2007. Phylogenetics and phylogeography of the Artibeus jamaicensis complex based on cytochrome-b DNA sequences. Journal of Mammalogy 88(3):712-727. doi:10.1644/06-MAMM-A-125R.1 · Larsen, P.A., Marchán-Rivadeneira, M.R. and Baker, R.J. 2010. Taxonomic status of Andersen's fruit-eating bat (Artibeus jamaicensis aequatorialis) and revised classification of Artibeus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Zootaxa 2648(1):45-60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2648.1.3
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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Names and synonyms
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