Order Chiroptera Author Karl F. Koopman text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 137 241 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353060 54c9783b-6624-4034-96d9-d09afe43b319 1-56098-217-9 7353060 Artibeus jamaicensis Leach, 1821 . Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13:75 . TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica . DISTRIBUTION: Sinaloa and Tamaulipas ( Mexico ) to Ecuador , and Venezuela ; Trinidad and Tobago ; Greater and Lesser Antilles; Amazonian Brazil (only if obscurus or planirostris is included in this species). Perhaps Florida Keys; see Lazell and Koopman (1985) ; but see also Humphrey and Brown (1986) . SYNONYMS: aequatorialis , carpolegus, coryi, eva, grenadensis, insularis , lewisi, parvipes , paulus, praeceps, richardsoni, schwartzi , trinitatis , triomylus, yucatanicus . COMMENTS: Subgenus Artibeus . Bats often treated as jamaicensis most likely belong to several additional species; which are fraterculus and planirostris (Koopman, 19786:14- 16) and obscurus ( Handley, 1989 ) , and are so treated here.