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Desmodus rotundus (common vampire bat)
Taxonomy
Phyllostoma rotundum was named by Geoffroy (1810). It is extant.
It was recombined as Desmodus rotundus by Crile and Quiring (1940).
It was recombined as Desmodus rotundus by Crile and Quiring (1940).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1810 | Phyllostoma rotundum Geoffroy p. 181 |
| 1940 | Desmodus rotundus Crile and Quiring p. 233 |
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Desmodus rotundus Geoffroy 1810 [common vampire bat]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Simmons et al. 2008, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
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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| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Piaui) | Desmodus rotundus (71333 71335) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Brazil (Bahia) | Desmodus rotundus (71313) | |
| Holocene | Venezuela (Guarico) | Desmodus rotundus (21686) |