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Phyllostomus (spear-nosed bat)
Taxonomy
Phyllostomus was named by Lacépède (1799). It is extant. It is the type genus of Phyllostominae.
It was assigned to Phyllostomina by Gray (1825); and to Phyllostominae by Salles et al. (2006).
It was assigned to Phyllostomina by Gray (1825); and to Phyllostominae by Salles et al. (2006).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1799 | Phyllostomus Lacépède |
1825 | Phyllostomus Gray p. 338 |
2006 | Phyllostomus Salles et al. p. 7 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Phyllostomus Lacépède 1799 [spear-nosed bat]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
References: Ji et al. 2002, Simmons et al. 2008, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Pleistocene - Holocene | Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul) | Phyllostomus sp. (92813) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Piaui) | Phyllostomus hastatus (71332) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Goiás) | Phyllostomus sp., Phyllostomus hastatus (211821) | |
Holocene | Venezuela (Guarico) | Phyllostomus discolor, Phyllostomus hastatus, Phyllostomus elongatus (21686) |