Artibeus jamaicensis Leach, 1821 . Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13:75.

TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica .

DISTRIBUTION: Sinaloa and Tamaulipas (Mexico) to Ecuador, and Venezuela; Trinidad and Tobago; Greater and Lesser Antilles; Amazonian Brazil (only if obscurus or planirostris is included in this species). Perhaps Florida Keys; see Lazell and Koopman (1985); but see also Humphrey and Brown (1986).

SYNONYMS: aequatorialis, carpolegus, coryi, eva, grenadensis, insularis, lewisi, parvipes, paulus, praeceps, richardsoni, schwartzi, trinitatis, triomylus, yucatanicus .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Artibeus . Bats often treated as jamaicensis most likely belong to several additional species; which are fraterculus and planirostris (Koopman, 19786:14- 16) and obscurus (Handley, 1989), and are so treated here.