Platyrrhinus angustirostris Velazco, Gardner &amp; Patterson 2010
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Platyrrhinus
Platyrrhinus angustirostris

description: 172. Slender Broad-nosed Bat <i>Platyrrhinus angustirostris</i> <b>French:</b> Sténoderme a nez mince / <b>German:</b> Zierliche Breitnasenfledermaus / <b>Spanish:</b> Platirrino de nariz estrecha <b>Taxonomy.</b> Platyrrhinus angustirostris Velazco, Gardner &amp; Patterson, 2010, * ‘Bio Utcubamba, entre Churuja y Pedro Ruiz, 4250 ft’ (1295 m); Bongard, Amazonas; Peru, approximately 5°57'59"S, 77º54'59"W.” Platyrrhinus angustirostris was split from P. helleri. Monotypic. <b>Distribution.</b> Colombia, Venezuela, E Ecuador, N Peru, and C Brazil. <b>Descriptive notes.</b> Head-body 52-58 mm (tailless), ear 12-16 mm, hindfoot 11-13 mm, forearm 35-39 mm; weight 13 g. The Slender Broad-nosed Bat is small, with slender skull and low narrow rostrum. Fur is dense and soft. Dorsal fur is dark to pale brown, with narrow but conspicuous white line from crown to base of caudal membrane; underparts are dark gray, with unicolored hairs. Face has four parallel, narrow, and white stripes; upper ones run from behind nose and over eyes to upper edges of ears on crown; lower ones are less sharply defined and run from upper lip under eyes to lower edges of ears. Noseleaf is fleshy, large, and spear-shaped; edges of noseleaf are dark, never bright yellow, and lower rim is free; single array of eight vibrissae surrounds margins of noseleaf; ears are large and rounded, edges sometimes pale, but never yellow; and interramal vibrissae are absent. Fifth metacarpal is shorter than third; elbows are densely furred and colored like back. Caudal membrane is very short in middle, with deep U-shaped margin; edge of caudal membrane has dense and long hairs; and upper surface of feet are densely covered with long hairs. I' converge and are broad, with parallel tips, and twice as long as I”. M' protocone is well developed. Three stylar cuspules occur on posterior cristid of P*. One or two stylid cuspulids occur on anterior cristid of P, and two on its posterior cristid. <b>Habitat.</b> Amazonian ecosystems in tropical and subtropical primary, secondary, altered, and gallery forests and forest edges near cultivated areas at elevations of 150-1300 m. The Slender Broad-nosed Bat prefers humid forest and only rarely occurs in dry forest. <b>Food and Feeding.</b> The Slender Broad-nosed Bat feeds almost exclusively on fruits, like those from Ficus paraensis (Moraceae) and Vismia gracilis (Hypericaceae). <b>Breeding.</b> No information. <b>Activity patterns.</b> Slender Broad-nosed Bats are nocturnal. It often flies in interior forest or over streams. <b>Movements, Home range and Social organization.</b> No information. <b>Status and Conservation.</b> Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Conservation status of the Slender Broad-nosed Bat is apparently stable, and it occurs in several protected areas. <b>Bibliography.</b> Casallas-Pabén et al. (2017), Nogueira, Lima et al. (2014), SERFOR (2018), Tirira (2017), Velazco etal. (2010).
description: Published as part of <i>Don E. Wilson &amp; Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Phyllostomidae, pp. 444-583 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions</i> on page 565, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6458594