Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 190

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7290400
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scientific name	Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860
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Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860 View in CoL View at ENA . Revue Mag. Zool., Paris, (2) 12:429.

TYPE SPECIES: Phyllostoma lineatum E. Geoffroy, 1810 View in CoL .

COMMENTS: For a history of the nomeclature of this genus and reasons for using Platyrrhinus in place of Vampurops, see Gardner and Ferrell (1990) and Alberico and Velasco (1991).

References

Alberico, M. S., and E. Velasco. 1991. Description of a new broad-nosed bat from Colombia. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 42: 237 - 239.

Gardner, A. L., and C. S. Ferrell. 1990. Comments on the nomenclature of some Neotropical bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 103: 501 - 508.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Chiroptera
Family	Phyllostomidae

Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860

Karl F. Koopman 1993

1993

Platyrrhinus

Saussure 1860: 429

1860

Specimens