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 SPECIES Artibeus (Artibeus) fraterculus
 
| Author: | Anthony, 1924. |  | Citation: | Am. Mus. Novit., 114: 5. |  | Common Name: | Fraternal Fruit-eating Bat |  | Type Locality: | Ecuador, El Oro, Portovelo, 2,000 ft. (610 m). |  | Distribution: | Ecuador, Peru. |  | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Vulnerable. |  | Comments: | Subgenus Artibeus. Considered a subspecies of jamaicensis by Jones and Carter (1976), but see Koopman (1978b) and Marques-Aguiar (1994). |  |  |  | 
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