Choco Broad-nosed Bat
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| Choco Broad-nosed Bat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Phyllostomidae |
| Genus: | Platyrrhinus |
| Species: | P. chocoensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Platyrrhinus chocoensis Alberico & Velasco, 1991 |
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The Choco Broad-nosed Bat (Platyrrhinus chocoensis) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is native to Colombia and Ecuador, where it is found in the Choco region lowlands[1][2] at elevations from 35 to 305 m.[1] It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
[edit] Source
- ^ a b c d Velazco, P. & Aguirre, L. (2008). "Platyrrhinus chocoensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/17568. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
- ^ Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., 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, http://www.bucknell.edu/MSW3/browse.asp?s=y&id=13801425, retrieved 13 September 2009
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