Artibeus jatnaicensis Leach, 1821 . Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 13:75.

TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica .

DISTRIBUTION: Sinaloa and Tamaulipas (Mexico) to Guianas, Trinidad; Tobago; Greater Antilles; Lesser Antilles. Amazonian Brazil (JRT; KFK disagrees).

COMMENT: Includes trinitatis and preceps (KFK). Bats often treated as jatnaicensis most probably belong to several additional species; they are fraterculus and planirostris (Koopman, 1978:14- 16) and fuliginosus (Handley, 1976, Brigham Young Univ. Sci. Bull., 20(5):31) and are so treated here.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301405008026006001.