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Great Fruit-eating Bat
Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0, via iNaturalist

Bats

Great Fruit-eating Bat

Artibeus lituratus (Olfers, 1818)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishGreat Fruit-eating Bat
DutchGrote Vruchtenvleermuis
SpanishMurciélago frugívoro gigante
Chinese大食果蝠
Scientific nameArtibeus lituratus (Olfers, 1818)

About this species

The great fruit-eating bat (Artibeus lituratus) is a bat species found from Mexico to Brazil and Argentina, as well as in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderChiroptera
FamilyPhyllostomidae
GenusArtibeus

In Suriname

296Records in Suriname
2iNaturalist observations
1972First record
2017Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Sipaliwini185
  • Brokopondo42
  • Paramaribo11
  • Para1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

Sources & credits

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