Chiroderma

Chiroderma – big-eyed bats or white-lined bats – is a genus of leaf-nosed bat found in North America, Central America, and South America and the Lesser Antilles.^[1]

Chiroderma
Salvin's big-eyed bat (Chiroderma salvini)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Phyllostomidae
Subfamily:	Stenodermatinae
Genus:	Chiroderma Peters, 1860
Type species
Chiroderma villosum Peters, 1860
Species
Chiroderma doriae Chiroderma gorgasi Chiroderma improvisum Chiroderma salvini Chiroderma scopaeum Chiroderma trinitatum Chiroderma villosum Chiroderma vizottoi
Synonyms[1]
Mimetops Gray, 1866

Species

The following species were recognized as of 2005^[update],^[1] and a total of seven species to 2020^[2][3]

• Brazilian big-eyed bat, Chiroderma doriae Thomas, 1891
• Gorgas's big-eyed bat, Chiroderma gorgasi Handley, 1960
• Guadeloupe big-eyed bat, Chiroderma improvisum Baker & Genoways, 1976
• Salvin's big-eyed bat, Chiroderma salvini Dobson, 1878
• Mexican big-eyed bat, Chiroderma scopaeum Handley, 1966
• Little big-eyed bat, Chiroderma trinitatum Goodwin, 1958
• Hairy big-eyed bat, Chiroderma villosum Peters, 1860
• Vizotto's big-eyed bat Chiroderma vizottoi, Taddei & Lim, 2010^[4]

References

1. Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, retrieved 13 September 2009
2. Garbino, G.S.T.; Lim, B.K.; Tavares, V.C.T. (7 September 2020). "Systematics of big-eyed bats, genus Chiroderma Peters, 1860 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)". Zootaxa (4846): 1–93. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4846.1.1. ISSN 1175-5326.
3. Lim, B.K.; Loureiro, L.O.; Garbino, G.S.T. (12 March 2020). "Cryptic diversity and range extension in the big-eyed bat genus Chiroderma (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae)". ZooKeys (918): 41–63. doi:10.3897/zookeys.918.48786. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 7086341. PMID 32218685.
4. Taddei, V.A.; Lim, B.K. (May 2010). "A new species of Chiroderma (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Northeastern Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Biology. 70 (2): 381–386. doi:10.1590/S1519-69842010000200021. PMID 20549066.

Further reading

• Baker, Robert J.; Taddei, Valdir A.; Hudgeons, Jeremy L.; Van Den Bussche, Ronald A. (1994). "Systematic Relationships Within Chiroderma (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) Based on Cytochrome b Sequence Variation". Journal of Mammalogy. 75 (2): 321–327. doi:10.2307/1382550. JSTOR 1382550.