Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat
Artibeus planirostris
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 166
- Most observed in
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The flat-faced fruit-eating bat (Artibeus planirostris) is a South American species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Jamaican fruit bat, but can be distinguished by its larger size, the presence of faint stripes on the face, and of a third molar tooth on each side of the upper jaw. Genetic analysis has also shown that the two species may not be closely related.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Flat-faced fruit-eating bat”.