Great Fruit-eating Bat
Artibeus lituratus
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassMammalia (Mamífers)
- OrderChiroptera (Ratpenats)
- FamilyPhyllostomidae (New World Leaf-nosed Bats)
- GenusArtibeus (Neotropical Fruit Bats)
- SpeciesArtibeus lituratus (Great Fruit-eating Bat)
Closest Relatives at Bastimentos Island National Marine Park
Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat
Artibeus jamaicensis
Greater Spear-nosed Bat
Phyllostomus hastatus
Orange Nectar Bat
Lonchophylla robusta
Common tent-making Bat
Uroderma bilobatum
Fringe-Lipped Bat
Trachops cirrhosus
Pale Spear-Nosed Bat
Phyllostomus discolor
Proboscis Bat
Rhynchonycteris naso
Greater Sac-winged Bat
Saccopteryx bilineata
Northern Ghost Bat
Diclidurus albus
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of Great Fruit-eating Bat at Bastimentos Island National Marine Park — not enough to chart months honestly.
☀️🌙 When They're Spotted
Active throughout day and night · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there