Desmodus rotundus (E. Geoffroy, 1810) . Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 15:181.

TYPE LOCALITY: Paraguay, Asuncion .

DISTRIBUTION: Uruguay, N Argentina, and N Chile to Sonora, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas (Mexico); Margarita Isl (Venezuela); Trinidad.

SYNONYMS: cinerea, d'orbigny, ecaudatus, fuscus, mordax, murinus, rufus .

COMMENTS: See Greenhall et al. (1983, Mammalian Species, 202).