Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860 . Revue Mag. Zool., Paris, (2) 12:429.

TYPE SPECIES: Phyllostoma lineatum E. Geoffroy, 1810 .

COMMENTS: For a history of the nomeclature of this genus and reasons for using Platyrrhinus in place of Vampurops, see Gardner and Ferrell (1990) and Alberico and Velasco (1991).