Bats of the World

A Taxonomic and Geographic Database

Compiled and Edited by:
Nancy B. Simmons and Andrea L. Cirranello
American Museum of Natural History

Your search for Furipterus resulted in 1 species-level match:

Furipterus Bonaparte, 1837. Iconogr. Fauna Ital. 1, fasc. 21

Furia horrens F. Cuvier, 1828

Furia F Cuvier, 1828 [not Linnaeus, 1758]; Furiella Gray, 1866.

References:

Bonaparte, C.L. 1837. Iconographia della fauna italica: per le quattro classi degli animali vertebrati. Tipografia Salviucci, Roma: 1-390. Read fascicle.

Furipterus horrens (F. Cuvier, 1828).
Mem. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. Paris 16:150.
Thumbless Bat

Furia horrens

 

horrens F. Cuvier, 1828:

 caerulescens Tomes, 1856.

French Guiana, Mana River

Costa Rica south to Peru, SE Bolivia, the Guianas, and Brazil; Trinidad

CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Least Concern (2016).

See Emmons (1997) for distribution map and Alfaro-Lara et al. (2018) for recent records of this species in Costa Rica.

References:

Alfaro-Lara, H., D. Villalobos-Chaves, J.I. Castillo-Gómez, A.F. Zuñiga-Montero, and W. Pineda-Lizano 2019. Rediscovery of Furipterus horrens (Chiroptera: Furipteridae) in Costa Rica. Mammalia 83(4): 352-356. Read abstract.

Cuvier, F. 1828. Description d'un nouveau genre de chauve-souris sous le nom de Furie. Mémories du Muséum d'histoire naturelle Paris 16(1828): 149-155. Read article.

Emmons, L.H., and F. Feer 1997. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: a Field Guide. University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1-396. Not available online.