Brown-bellied broad-nosed bat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Platyrrhinus
Species:
P. fusciventris
Binomial name
Platyrrhinus fusciventris
Velazco et al., 2010

The brown-bellied broad-nosed bat (Platyrrhinus fusciventris) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. As a phyllostomid bat, it is characterized by a narrow uropatagium which is fringed with hair; a white dorsal stripe; large inner upper incisors convergent at the tips; and three upper and three lower molars. It is found in Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, northern Brazil, eastern Ecuador, and the southern Venezuela. It is closely related to Platyrrhinus incarum and Platyrrhinus angustirostris.[2]

References

  1. ^ Solari, S. (2019). "Platyrrhinus fusciventris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T88160339A146605973.
  2. ^ Velazco, Paúl M.; Gardner, Alfred L.; Patterson, Bruce D. (2010). "Systematics of the Platyrrhinus helleri species complex (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), with descriptions of two new species". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 159 (3): 785–812. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00610.x. ISSN 0024-4082.

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