Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus 1758)

[Carollia] perspicillata (Linnaeus 1758), Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 31.

Type Locality: Surinam.

Vernacular Names: Seba's Short-tailed Bat.

Synonyms: Carollia amplexicaudata E. Geoffroy 1818; Carollia azteca Saussure 1860; Carollia brachyotus Schinz 1821; Carollia braziliensis Gray 1838; Carollia calcaratum Wagner 1843; Carollia tricolor Miller 1902; Carollia verrucata Gray 1844 .

Distribution: Oaxaca, Veracruz and Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico) to Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, SE Brazil and Guianas; Trinidad and Tobago; perhaps Jamaica, N Lesser Antilles. A record from Grenada (Lesser Antilles) is probably erroneous; see Genoways et al. (1998).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Includes tricolor; see Pine (1972). Some authors have recognized subspecies, but see Pine (1972), McLellan (1984), and Koopman (1994). See also Cloutier and Thomas (1992). Phylogeography discussed by Ditchfield (2000).