| Author: | Tomes, 1863. |
| Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863: 83. |
| Common Name: | Common Sword-nosed Bat |
| Type Locality: | Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad. |
| Distribution: | Oaxaca (Mexico) south to SE Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador; Trinidad; perhaps New Providence Isl (Bahama Isls), see Jones and Carter (1976). |
| Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc). |
| Comments: | aurita species group. Includes occidentalis; see Jones and Carter (1976). See Lassieur and Wilson (1989) and Handley and Ochoa (1997). Some specimens previously referred to this species actually represent inusitata; see Handley and Ochoa (1997). |
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