Seba's Short-tailed Bat
Carollia perspicillata
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassMammalia (Mamífers)
- OrderChiroptera (Ratpenats)
- FamilyPhyllostomidae (New World Leaf-nosed Bats)
- GenusCarollia
- SpeciesCarollia perspicillata (Seba's Short-tailed Bat)
Closest Relatives at Soberanía National Park
Chestnut Short-Tailed Bat
Carollia castanea
Common tent-making Bat
Uroderma bilobatum
Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat
Artibeus jamaicensis
Fringe-Lipped Bat
Trachops cirrhosus
Great Fruit-eating Bat
Artibeus lituratus
Greater Spear-nosed Bat
Phyllostomus hastatus
Common Big-eared Bat
Micronycteris microtis
White-throated Round-eared Bat
Lophostoma silvicola
Long-legged Bat
Macrophyllum macrophyllum
Pale Spear-Nosed Bat
Phyllostomus discolor
Pacific Tent-making Bat
Uroderma convexum
Great Stripe-faced Bat
Vampyrodes major
📅 Monthly Probability
🌙 When They're Spotted
Most active during nighttime hours (6pm–6am) · 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
Parks Where Found
| # | Park | Country | Probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 2 | Main Ridge Forest Reserve | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 3 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Santa Rosa National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 5 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 6 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 7 | Calakmul Biosphere Reserve | 🇲🇽 Mexico | |
| 8 | Braulio Carrillo National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 9 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 10 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
Quick answers
What are the chances of seeing a Seba's Short-tailed Bat in Soberanía National Park?
About 4% of visitor-days record a Seba's Short-tailed Bat sighting in Soberanía National Park, based on 6 observer-days of citizen-science data from GBIF.
When is the best time to see Seba's Short-tailed Bat in Soberanía National Park?
June has the highest sighting rate for Seba's Short-tailed Bat in Soberanía National Park in our monthly data.