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Great Fruit-eating Bat

Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus (Olfers, 1818)

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.

Phyllostoma perspicillatum

Phyllostoma perspicillatum

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Open encyclopedia reference

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.

Wikipedia contributors, Great fruit-eating bat; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T09:43:17.632821+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus (Olfers, 1818)
Name authority
(Olfers, 1818)
Common name
Great Fruit-eating Bat
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Phyllostomidae
Genus
Artibeus
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.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. megaclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammalia Linnaeus, 1758
  9. subclassTheria Parker & Haswell, 1897
  10. infraclassEutheria Gill, 1872
  11. orderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779
  12. suborderYangochiroptera Koopman, 1984
  13. superfamilyNoctilionoidea Gray, 1821
  14. familyPhyllostomidae Gray, 1825
  15. subfamilyStenodermatinae Gervais, 1856
  16. tribeStenodermatini Gervais, 1856
  17. subtribeArtibeina H. Allen, 1898
  18. genusArtibeus Leach, 1821
  19. subgenusArtibeus Leach, 1821
  20. speciesArtibeus (Artibeus) lituratus (Olfers, 1818)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Artibeus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Andersen's Fruit-eating BatArtibeus (Dermanura) anderseni Osgood, 1916PhyllostomidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Gervais's Fruit-eating BatArtibeus (Dermanura) cinereus (Gervais, 1856)PhyllostomidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Brown Fruit-eating BatArtibeus (Artibeus) concolor Peters, 1865PhyllostomidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Silver Fruit-eating BatArtibeus (Dermanura) glaucus Thomas, 1893PhyllostomidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Hairy Fruit-eating BatArtibeus (Artibeus) hirsutus K. Andersen, 1906PhyllostomidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Honduran Fruit-eating BatArtibeus (Artibeus) inopinatus Davis & Carter, 1964PhyllostomidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Dark Fruit-eating BatArtibeus (Artibeus) obscurus (Schinz, 1821)PhyllostomidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Pygmy Fruit-eating BatArtibeus (Dermanura) phaeotis (Miller, 1902)PhyllostomidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Little Fruit-eating BatArtibeus (Dermanura) ravus (Miller, 1902)PhyllostomidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rosenberg's Fruit-eating BatArtibeus (Dermanura) rosenbergi (Thomas, 1897)PhyllostomidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Toltec Fruit-eating BatArtibeus (Dermanura) toltecus (Saussure, 1860)PhyllostomidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Jamaican Fruit-eating BatArtibeus (Artibeus) jamaicensis Leach, 1821PhyllostomidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant

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Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

Caribbean

Middle America

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.

  1. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=631840 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:GZRB. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.