Vampyrum spectrum

Familia: Phyllostomidae
Subfamilia: Phyllostominae
Genus: Vampyrum
Species:

Vampyrum spectrum (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Type material: Unknown, based on specimen described and illustrated by Seba (1734: 92–93, pl. lviii, fig. 1).
• Type locality: “America australi”, restricted to “Surinam” by Thomas (1911: 130).

• Vespertilio spectrum Linnaeus, 1758: 31 [original combination]
• Phyllostoma spectrum: É. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1810: 174 [subsequent combination]
• Vampyrus spectrum: Ranzani, 1820: 190 [subsequent combination]
• Vampyrum spectrum: Anderson, 1908: 433 [subsequent combination]

• Vampyrus spectrum nelsoni Goldman, 1917: 115
  • Holotype: USNM 78127, adult ♂, body in alcohol with skull removed, collected by E.W. Nelson on 14 May 1896.
  • Type locality: “Coatzacoalcos, Vera Cruz, Mexico”.

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 
• Thomas, O. 1911. The Mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus; an Attempt to fix the Types of the Genera and the exact Bases and Localities of the Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 81(1): 120–158. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1911.tb06995.x BHL Reference page. 

• Husson, A.M. 1962. The bats of Suriname. Zoologische Verhandelingen 58(1): 1–282. PDFReference page. 
• Simmons, N.B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 312–529 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page. 
• Williams, S.L. & Genoways, H.H. [2007] 2008. Subfamily Phyllostominae. Pp. 255–300 in Gardner, A.L. (ed.), Mammals of South America. Volume 1. Marsupials, xenarthrans, shrews, and bats. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, Illinois. ISBN 978-0-226-28240-4. Reference page. 

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