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GENUS Platyrrhinus
Author: | Saussure, 1860. | Citation: | Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, ser. 2, 12: 429. | Type Species: | Phyllostoma lineatum E. Geoffroy, 1810. | Comments: | Subtribe Ectophyllina. For a history of the nomeclature of this genus and reasons for using Platyrrhinus in place of Vampyrops, see Gardner and Ferrell (1990) and Alberico and Velasco (1991). A key to the genus was provided by Ferrell and Wilson (1991). |
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