Platyrrhinus Explained

Platyrrhinus is a genus of leaf-nosed bats in the tribe Stenodermatini of family Phyllostomidae. Twenty-one species are known:^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

• Alberico's broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus albericoi
• Slender broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus angustirostris
• Darien broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus aquilus
• Eldorado broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus aurarius
• Short-headed broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus brachycephalus
• Choco broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus chocoensis
• Thomas's broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus dorsalis
• Brown-bellied broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus fusciventris
• Guianan broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus guianensis
• Heller's broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus helleri
• Incan broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus incarum
• Buffy broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus infuscus
• Platyrrhinus ismaeli
• White-lined broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus lineatus
• Quechua broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus masu
• Matapalo broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus matapalensis
• Geoffroy's rayed bat, Platyrrhinus nigellus
• Western broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus nitelinea
• Recife broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus recifinus
• Shadowy broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus umbratus
• Greater broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus vittatus

Notes and References

1. VELAZCO, P.M. . 2005 . Morphological phylogeny of the Bat Genus Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), with the Description of Four New Species . Fieldiana Zoology . 105 . 1–53 . 10.5962/bhl.title.2689. free .
2. VELAZCO, P.M. . GARDNER, A.L. . 2009 . A new species of Platyrrhinus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from western Colombia and Ecuador, with emended diagnoses of P. aquilus, P. dorsalis, and P. umbratus . Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . 122 . 3 . 249–281 . 10.2988/08-40.1.
3. VELAZCO, P.M. . GARDNER, A.L. . PATTERSON, B.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 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00610.x. free .
4. VELAZCO, P.M. . LIM, B.K. . 2014 . A new species of broad-nosed bat Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from the Guianan Shield . Zootaxa . 3796 . 1 . 175–19 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3796.1.9. 24870671 .