Uroderma magnirostrum

W. B. Davis, 1968

Brown Tent-making Bat

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Location:Venezuela, Cojedes, Finca La Fe, 60 km SE of InacoDate taken:1 January 1985Description:Close-up of head and shoulders, side view

Distribution :

Michoacan (Mexico) to south Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil

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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: Uroderma

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Davis, W.B. 1968-11-26. Review of the genus Uroderma (Chiroptera). Journal of Mammalogy 49(4):676-698.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.2307/1378728

Original name as described

Uroderma magnirostrum

Type material

TCWC:Mamm:17189

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"10 km E San Lorenzo, 25 ft [= 7.6 m], Departamento de Valle, Honduras."

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

Bolivia · Brazil · Colombia · Ecuador · El Salvador · French Guiana · Guatemala · Guyana · Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama · Peru · Venezuela

Distribution references

de Thoisy, B., Bordin, A., Rufray, V., Uriot, Q., Vanhoucke, M. and Silva, C.R. 2025. Annotated checklist of mammals from French Guiana. Mammalia (in press). doi:10.1515/mammalia-2025-0084

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005059

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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.

Uroderma magnirostrum

W. B. Davis, 1968

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

magnirostrum

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

TCWC:Mamm:17189

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

10 km E San Lorenzo, 25 ft, Departmento de Valle, Honduras

Type locality

Honduras.

Authority page

679

Authority publication

Journal of Mammalogy

Name usages

Corbet & Hill (1980:58) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Hall (1981:142) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35036)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:166) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Owen (1987:63, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55010682) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17399)
Corbet & Hill (1991:65) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Sánchez-Palomino, Rivas Pava & Cadena (1993:306) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34667)
Koopman (1993:193) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
Koopman (1994:86) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
Anderson (1997:255) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5773)
Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
O'Brien, Menninger & Nash (2006:417) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7321)
Mantilla-Meluk (2014:23, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57786005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/18428)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #22783) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #22783) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:558) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
Velazco, Voss, Fleck & Simmons (2021:117, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61530319) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/56561)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005059) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22783/22048094) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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