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West-Indies, restricted by 
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to Chichén Itzá, 
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<emphasis id="6EB5EA9FA12EFFCD35ADFF555310FF50" bold="true" box="[199,578,151,176]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Pertinent taxonomic references.</emphasis>
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is distributed from southern North 
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, through Central 
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, occurring in 
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(
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—shows primarily the South American part of this distribution). In 
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it occurs only in Amazonia, and it is known from the states of Amapá, Pará, Maranhão, Amazonas and Roraima, with an eastern Amazonian distribution, and restricted in the west to lower Japurá, Purus and Madeira rivers (
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). 
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is arboreal/scansorial and nocturnal, inhabits primary, secondary and varzea forests, patches of forest in open savannas, caves, xerophytic environments, and perianthropic areas not far from forest (
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2004). It is usually found on tree and palm trunks (under bark), and in man-made structures, from close to the ground to 6 meters high (
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