Noctilio leporinus (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:32.

TYPE LOCALITY: Surinam .

DISTRIBUTION: Sinaloa (Mexico) to Guianas, S Brazil, N Argentina, and Peru; Trinidad; Greater and Lesser Antilles; S Bahamas.

SYNONYMS: americanus, brooksiana, dorsatus; labialis Kerr; mastivus, mexicanus, minor, rufipes, rufescens, rufus, unicolor, vittatus .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Dirias . See Hood and Jones (1984, Mammalian Species, 216).