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  • Michael Rothman painting of Phyllostomus hastatus carrying away a seed of the sapucaia.

    Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World 2007

  • LEAF-NOSED BAT (_Vampyrus spectrum_ or _Phyllostomus hastatus panamensis_) 1.

    Animal Figures in the Maya Codices 1915

  • Mammalia: Leaf-nosed Bat (_Vampyrus_ or _Phyllostomus_).

    Animal Figures in the Maya Codices 1915

  • Phyllostomus hastatus, a frugivore, where female roost members actively recruit each other to fruiting trees with the help of individually recognizable screech calls

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Dina K. N. Dechmann et al. 2010

  • The few species that are mainly restricted to this ecoregion include the endemic black uakari monkeys (Cacajao melanocephalus) and bearded sakis (Chiropotes satanas), opossums (Marmosops impavidus), bats (Micronycteris pusilla, Phyllostomus latifolius, Platyrrhinus aurarius), and several rodents (Neusticomys venezuelae, Rhipidomys macconnelli, Cavia guianae, and Proechimys simonsi).

    Negro-Branco moist forests 2008

  • Some mammals are restricted to this region of Amazonia; these include an endemic opossum (Marmosa tyleriana) and white-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris), long-tailed weasels, pale-throated sloths and a great variety of bats (Diclidurus isabellus, Pteronotus personatus, Phyllostomus latifolius, Anoura geoffroyi, Glossophaga longirostris), an endemic rodent (Podoxymys roraimae), three climbing rats in the genus Rhipidomys, and two guinea pigs (Cavia).

    Tepuis 2008

  • Phyllostomus hastatus) (Fig. 4) remove the seeds with the attached aril usually on the same night that the fruits open.

    Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World 2007

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