Thyroptera lavali

Pine, 1993

LaVal's Disk-winged Bat

Male, wings spread, discs clearly visible
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Location:Peru, Madre de Dios, MaskoitaniaDate taken:19 September 2001Description:Male, wings spread, discs clearly visible

Distribution :

Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 1619

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera
Suborder: Yangochiroptera
Superfamily: Noctilionoidea
Family: Thyropteridae
Genus: Thyroptera

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Pine, R.H. 1993. A new species of Thyroptera Spix (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Thyropteridae) from the Amazon Basin of northeastern Perú. Mammalia 57(2):213-226.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.1993.57.2.213

Original name as described

Thyroptera lavali

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:89121

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=72f7444e-2e52-4e28-94b6-0155e4734e01

Type locality

"PERU: [Departamento de] Loreto, Rio Yavari Mirim, Q[uebrada]. Esperanza 200 m. alt."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil · Ecuador · Peru · Venezuela

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005096

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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: 2 names and synonyms.

Thyroptera lavali

Pine, 1993

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

lavali

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

FMNH:Mamm:89121

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

PERU: [Departamento de] Loreto, Rio Yavari Mirim, Q. Esperanza 200 m. alt." (skin label) = "Peru – LoreTo [sic] – (Prov. Maynas) ALTO Yavari y Rio Mirim [:] Rio Mirim, Quebrada Esperanza [, ] 200 m. alt." (field catalog) = "Quebrada Esperanza, Rio Yavari Mirim, 200 meters, 4°21'S, 71°58'W", Loreto, Peru according to Hershkovitz (1977) = "ESPERANZA, QUEBRADA : Loreto [:] ca. 0420/7155 (IGM) [IGM = "Mapa Fisico Politico. Instítuto Geográphico Militar del Peru [sic], 1973. Scale 1:1, 000, 000, " according to Stephens and Traylor, 1983] Affluent to left bank of Río Yavarí-Mirín (IGM)... at 200 m, above San Vicente... not located... (Blake, 1959b: 374)" according to Stephens and Traylor (1983) = "Quebrada Esperanza, Río Javary-Mirim, Loreto, Peru. Altitude 200 meters" according to Blake (1959) [all brackets original]

Type locality

Peru: Loreto Department: 4°21′S, 71°58′W.

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=72f7444e-2e52-4e28-94b6-0155e4734e01

Authority page

213

Authority publication

Mammalia

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #21878) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #21878) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:422) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
Velazco, Voss, Fleck & Simmons (2021:126, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61530328) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/56561)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005096) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/21878/21985717) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Thyroptera laveli:

Eisenberg & Redford, 1999

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

laveli

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

191

Authority publication

Chicago

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