Slender broad-nosed bat

Slender broad-nosed bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Platyrrhinus
Species: P. angustirostris
Binomial name
Platyrrhinus angustirostris
Velazco et al., 2010

The slender broad-nosed bat (Platyrrhinus angustirostris) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. As a phyllostomid bat, it is characterized by a narrow uropatagium which is fringed with hair; a white dorsal stripe; large inner upper incisors convergent at the tips; and three upper and three lower molars. It is found in eastern Colombia and Ecuador, north-eastern Peru, and Venezuela. It is closely related to Platyrrhinus incarum and Platyrrhinus fusciventris.[1]

References

  1. Velazco, Paúl M.; Gardner, Alfred L.; Patterson, Bruce D. (2010). "Systematics of the Platyrrhinus helleri species complex (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), with descriptions of two new species". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159 (3): 785–812. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00610.x. ISSN 0024-4082.

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