Furipteridae Gray, 1866

Velazco, Paúl M., Voss, Robert S., Fleck, David W. & Simmons, Nancy B., 2021, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021 (451), pp. 1-201 : 123

Family Furipteridae Gray, 1866

The Neotropical family Furipteridae includes two monotypic genera, Amorphochilus and Furipterus (Simmons, 2005; Gardner, 2008k; Simmons and Cirranello, 2020). These taxa can be distinguished from other Neotropical bats by their relatively small size (forearm <39 mm); a blunt muzzle with anteriorly directed nostrils; a tail that is sheathed in the uropatagium, but does not reach the posterior margin of that membrane; a short, triangular tragus; a highly reduced thumb that is enclosed in the wing membrane; a globose braincase that is elevated well above the rostrum; a dentary with a well-developed mental spur; and short upper and lower canines that are about as tall as the crown of the tallest premolar (Simmons and Voss, 1998; Gardner, 2008k). We recorded the only furipterid species expected to occur in the Yavarí-Ucayali Interfluve.