Trachops Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1847: 14.
Trachops fuliginosus Gray, 1865 (=Vampyrus cirrhosus Spix, 1823)
Trachops coffini Goldman, 1925.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 38: 23.
Coffin's Fringe-lipped Bat
Guatemala, Peten, Guyo
S Mexico to Costa Rica
CITES - Not Listed (under Trachops cirrhosus) IUCN - Not Evaluated (raised from synonymy).
References:
Clare, E.L. 2011. Cryptic species? Patterns of maternal and paternal gene flow in eight neotropical bats. PLOS One 6(7): e21460. Read article.
Clare, E.L., B.K. Lim, M.B. Fenton, and P.D.N. Hebert. 2011. Neotropical bats: estimating species diversity with DNA barcodes. PLOS One 6(7): e22648. Read article.
Ditchfield, A.D. 2000. The comparative phylogeography of Neotropical mammals: patterns of intraspecific mitochondrial DNA variation among bats contrasted to nonvolant small mammals. Molecular Ecology 9(9): 1307-1318. Read abstract.
Fonseca, B. da S., J.A. Soto-Centeno, N.B. Simmons, A.D. Ditchfield, and Y.L.R. Leite. 2024. A species complex in the iconic frog-eating bat Trachops cirrhosus (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) with high variation in the heart of the Neotropics. American Museum Novitates 4021: 1-27. Read article.
Goldman, E.A. 1925. A new bat of the genus Trachops from Guatemala. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 38(1925): 23-34. Read article.
Distinct from cirrhosus; see discussion in Fonseca et al. (2024). See also Ditchfield (2000), Clare (2011), and Clare et al. (2011). Conservation assessment of coffini, already considered as Federally Threatened in Mexico, is urgently needed.