The slender broad-nosed bat (''Platyrrhinus angustirostris'') is a species of
bat
Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (). With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out ...
in the family
Phyllostomidae. As a phyllostomid bat, it is characterized by a narrow
uropatagium
The patagium (: patagia) is a membranous body part that assists an animal in obtaining lift when gliding or flying. The structure is found in extant and extinct groups of flying and gliding animals including bats, theropod dinosaurs (including b ...
which is fringed with hair; a white dorsal stripe; large inner upper
incisor
Incisors (from Latin ''incidere'', "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals. They are located in the premaxilla above and on the mandible below. Humans have a total of eight (two on each side, top and bottom). Opossums have 18, wher ...
s convergent at the tips; and three upper and three lower
molars
The molars or molar teeth are large, flat tooth, teeth at the back of the mouth. They are more developed in mammal, mammals. They are used primarily to comminution, grind food during mastication, chewing. The name ''molar'' derives from Latin, '' ...
. It is found in eastern Colombia and Ecuador, north-eastern Peru, and Venezuela. It is closely related to ''
Platyrrhinus incarum'' and ''
Platyrrhinus fusciventris''.
References
Further reading
*Velazco, PAÚL M., and BURTON K. Lim. "A new species of broad-nosed bat Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from the Guianan Shield." Zootaxa 3796.1 (2014): 175–193.
*Albuja Viteri, Luis Humberto. "Lista de mamíferos actuales del Ecuador." (2011).
*Ramírez-Chaves, Héctor E., Elkin A. Noguera-Urbano, and Miguel E. Rodríguez-Posada. "Mamíferos (Mammalia) del departamento de Putumayo, Colombia." Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 37.143 (2013): 263–286.
Platyrrhinus
Mammals described in 2010
Bats of South America
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