Artibeus watsoni
| Thomas's fruit-eating bat | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Phyllostomidae |
| Genus: | Dermanura |
| Species: |
D. watsoni (Thomas, 1901) |
| Binomial name | |
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Dermanura watsoni |
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Thomas's fruit-eating bat (Dermanura watsoni), sometimes also popularly called Watson's fruit-eating bat, is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. The species name is in honor of H. J. Watson, a plantation owner in western Panama who used to send specimens to the British Natural History Museum, where Oldfield Thomas would often describe them.
This species was formerly placed in the genus Artibeus, but has been reclassified based on genetic research. Dermanura, formerly a subgenus of Artibeus, has been elevated to its own genus. The two genera cannot be differentiated by morphology, however; they can only be distinguished using molecular data.
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