NATURAL HISTORY · CATALOGUE RECORD
Chestnut Short-tailed Bat
Carollia castanea H. Allen, 1890
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Chestnut short-tailed bat (Juvenile Male)
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Open encyclopedia reference
The chestnut short-tailed bat (Carollia castanea) is a bat species from South and Central America. The species is often confused with the Benkeith's short-tailed bat. It is a mainly frugivorous species that has been known to consume insects (its favorite food being piperaceae). To determine which pipers to forage on, it focuses on odour and then after proceeds to echolocate to determine position. It hunts between nightfall and midnight (females during the first half, males during the whole). Habitats include hollow trees, caves, cracks, abandoned mines, sewers, and house roofs. It does not decrease activity during full moons, only instances of turbulent weather like heavy rain. In an agricultural setting it has a higher resistance to habitat fragmentation compared to similar bat species.
Wikipedia contributors, Chestnut short-tailed bat; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T11:02:50.691138+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Carollia castanea H. Allen, 1890
- Name authority
- H. Allen, 1890
- Common name
- Chestnut Short-tailed Bat
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Phyllostomidae
- Genus
- Carollia
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classMammalia Linnaeus, 1758
- subclassTheria Parker & Haswell, 1897
- infraclassEutheria Gill, 1872
- orderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779
- suborderYangochiroptera Koopman, 1984
- superfamilyNoctilionoidea Gray, 1821
- familyPhyllostomidae Gray, 1825
- subfamilyCarolliinae Miller, 1924
- genusCarollia Gray, 1838
- speciesCarollia castanea H. Allen, 1890
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Carollia. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Hernandez's Short-tailed BatCarollia monohernandezi Muñoz, Cuartas & González, 2004 | PhyllostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Silky Short-tailed BatCarollia brevicaudum (Schinz, 1821) | PhyllostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sowell's Short-tailed BatCarollia sowelli Baker, Solari & Hoffmann, 2002 | PhyllostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Manu Short-tailed BatCarollia manu Pacheco, Solari & Velazco, 2004 | PhyllostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray Short-tailed BatCarollia subrufa (Hahn, 1905) | PhyllostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
South America
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=631821 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:69DMH. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.