Great fruit-eating bat

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Great fruit-eating bat
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A. lituratus
Binomial name
Artibeus lituratus
Olfers, 1818
Synonyms

Artibeus intermedius Allen, 1897

The great fruit-eating bat (Artibeus lituratus) is a bat species in the family Phyllostomidae from South and Central America. It is found from Mexico to Brazil and Argentina, as well as in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago.

They are 10.5 g at birth and grow to 65 g as adults.[2]

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