Artibeus jamaicensis Leach, 1821

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 188

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scientific name	Artibeus jamaicensis Leach, 1821
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Artibeus jamaicensis Leach, 1821 View in CoL View at ENA . 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.

References

Handley, C. O., Jr. 1989 [1990]. The Artibeus of Gray 1838. Pp. 443 - 468, in Advances in neotropical mammalogy (K. H. Redford and J. F. Eisenberg, eds.). Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL, 614 pp.

Humphrey, S. R., and L. N. Brown. 1986. Report of a new bat (Chiroptera: Artibeus jamaicensis) in the United States is erroneous. Florida Scientist, 49: 261 - 263.

Lazell, J. D., and K. F. Koopman. 1985. Notes on bats of Florida's Lower Keys. Florida Scientist, 48: 37 - 41.