Chiroderma – big-eyed bats or white-lined bats – is a genus of leaf-nosed bat found in North America, Central America, and South America and the Lesser Antilles.[1]
| Chiroderma | |
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| Salvin's big-eyed bat (Chiroderma salvini) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Phyllostomidae |
| Subfamily: | Stenodermatinae |
| Genus: | Chiroderma Peters, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Chiroderma villosum Peters, 1860
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Chiroderma doriae | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
editThe following species were recognized as of 2005[update],[1] and a total of seven species to 2020[2][3]
- Brazilian big-eyed bat, Chiroderma doriae Thomas, 1891
- Gorgas's big-eyed bat, Chiroderma gorgasi Handley, 1960
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat, Chiroderma improvisum Baker & Genoways, 1976
- Salvin's big-eyed bat, Chiroderma salvini Dobson, 1878
- Mexican big-eyed bat, Chiroderma scopaeum Handley, 1966
- Little big-eyed bat, Chiroderma trinitatum Goodwin, 1958
- Hairy big-eyed bat, Chiroderma villosum Peters, 1860
- Vizotto's big-eyed bat Chiroderma vizottoi, Taddei & Lim, 2010[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, retrieved 13 September 2009
- ^ Garbino, G.S.T.; Lim, B.K.; Tavares, V.C.T. (7 September 2020). "Systematics of big-eyed bats, genus Chiroderma Peters, 1860 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)". Zootaxa (4846): 1–93. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4846.1.1. ISSN 1175-5326.
- ^ Lim, B.K.; Loureiro, L.O.; Garbino, G.S.T. (12 March 2020). "Cryptic diversity and range extension in the big-eyed bat genus Chiroderma (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae)". ZooKeys (918): 41–63. doi:10.3897/zookeys.918.48786. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 7086341. PMID 32218685.
- ^ Taddei, V.A.; Lim, B.K. (May 2010). "A new species of Chiroderma (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Northeastern Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Biology. 70 (2): 381–386. doi:10.1590/S1519-69842010000200021. PMID 20549066.
Further reading
edit- Baker, Robert J.; Taddei, Valdir A.; Hudgeons, Jeremy L.; Van Den Bussche, Ronald A. (1994). "Systematic Relationships Within Chiroderma (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) Based on Cytochrome b Sequence Variation". Journal of Mammalogy. 75 (2): 321–327. doi:10.2307/1382550. JSTOR 1382550.
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