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--> ORDER CHIROPTERA
--> FAMILY Emballonuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Emballonurinae
--> GENUS Peropteryx
--> SUBGENUS Peronymus
SPECIES Peropteryx (Peronymus) leucoptera
Author: | Peters, 1867. | Citation: | Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 474. | Common Name: | White-winged Dog-like Bat | Type Locality: | Surinam. | Distribution: | Peru, Colombia, N and E Brazil, Venezuela, Guianas. | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Peronymus. Formerly placed in its own genus (Peronymus), but clearly a member of the Peropteryx clade, see Griffiths and Smith (1991), Jones and Hood (1993), Dunlop (1998), and Simmons and Voss (1998). |
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