Tonatia is a small genus of South and Central American phyllostomid bats.[1]

Tonatia
Stripe-headed round-eared bat (Tonita saurophila)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Subfamily: Phyllostominae
Genus: Tonatia
Gray, 1827
Type species
Vampyrus bidens
Spix, 1823

Species edit

Greater round-eared bat, Tonatia bidens Spix, 1823
Stripe-headed round-eared bat, Tonatia saurophila Koopman & Williams, 1951

References edit

  1. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.