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Lophostoma

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Theria
Infraclassis: Eutheria
Ordo: Chiroptera
Subordo: Microchiroptera
Superfamilia: Noctilionoidea
Familia: Phyllostomidae
Subfamilia: Phyllostominae
Genus: Lophostoma
Species (6): L. brasiliense - L. carrikeri - L. evotis - L. occidentalis - L. schulzi - L. silvicolum

Name

Lonchorhina d'Orbigny, 1836

Type Species: Lophostoma silvicolum d'Orbigny, 1836

Synonyms

Chrotopterus J. A. Allen, 1910


References

d'Orbigny. 1836. Voy. Amer. Merid. Atlas Zool., 4: 11.
Lophostoma in Mammal Species of the World.
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2 Volume Set edited by Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder


Vernacular names
English: Round-eared Bats.

Lophostoma is a genus of Central and South American bats in the family Phyllostomidae.[1]

Species

Genus Lophostoma

Equatorial Round-eared Bat, Lophostoma aequatorialis
Pygmy Round-eared Bat, Lophostoma brasiliense
Carriker's Round-eared Bat, Lophostoma carrikeri
Davis's Round-eared Bat, Lophostoma evotis
Schultz's Round-eared Bat, Lophostoma schulzi
White-throated Round-eared Bat, Lophostoma silvicolum
Yasuni Round-eared Bat, Lophostoma yasuni

References

^ Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., 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

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