Trachops Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1847: 14.
Trachops fuliginosus Gray, 1865 (=Vampyrus cirrhosus Spix, 1823)
Trachops ehrhardti Felten, 1956.
Senck. Biol. 37: 369.
Ehrhardt's Fringe-lipped Bat
Brazil, Santa Catarina, Joinville
SE Brazil
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.
Felten, H 1956. Eine neue unterart von Trachops cirrhosus (Mammalia, Chiroptera) aus Brasilien. Senckenbergiana Biologica 37: 369-370. Not available online.
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.
Distinct from cirrhosus; see discussion in Fonseca et al. (2024). See also Ditchfield (2000), Clare (2011), and Clare et al. (2011). Conservation assessment of ehrhardti is urgently needed.