Phyllostomidae (New World Leaf-nosed Bats)

Family

New World Leaf-nosed Bats

Phyllostomidae

85 species in our catalog · found in 71 parks

Species in this group

Each card shows the species at its best park — tap for the full profile

White Bat
NT

White Bat

☀️ Diurnal Mammal

Ectophylla alba

30–40% · Possible
Common tent-making Bat
LC

Common tent-making Bat

☀️ Diurnal Mammal

Uroderma bilobatum

30–40% · Possible
Greater Spear-nosed Bat
LC

Greater Spear-nosed Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Phyllostomus hastatus

Insufficient data
Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat
LC

Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Artibeus jamaicensis

20–30% · Possible
Big-eared Woolly Bat
LC

Big-eared Woolly Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Chrotopterus auritus

20–30% · Possible
🐒 No photo available

Amber Fruit-eating Bat

Mammal

Artibeus ravus

Insufficient data
Jamaican flower bat
CR Endemic

Jamaican flower bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Phyllonycteris aphylla

Insufficient data
White-lined Broad-nosed Bat
LC

White-lined Broad-nosed Bat

☀️ Diurnal Mammal

Platyrrhinus lineatus

Insufficient data
Hairy-legged Vampire Bat
LC

Hairy-legged Vampire Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Diphylla ecaudata

Insufficient data
Seba's Short-tailed Bat
LC

Seba's Short-tailed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Carollia perspicillata

Insufficient data
Geoffroy's tailless bat
LC

Geoffroy's tailless bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Anoura geoffroyi

Insufficient data
Miller's long-tongued bat
LC

Miller's long-tongued bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Glossophaga longirostris

Insufficient data
Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat
LC

Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Artibeus planirostris

Insufficient data
Vampire Bat
LC

Vampire Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Desmodus rotundus

Insufficient data
Pacific Tent-making Bat

Pacific Tent-making Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Uroderma convexum

Insufficient data
Honduran Yellow-shouldered Bat
LC

Honduran Yellow-shouldered Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Sturnira hondurensis

Insufficient data
Great Fruit-eating Bat
LC

Great Fruit-eating Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Artibeus lituratus

10–20% · With luck
Wrinkle-Faced Bat
LC Endemic

Wrinkle-Faced Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Centurio senex

Insufficient data
Dermanura phaeotis
LC

Dermanura phaeotis

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Artibeus phaeotis

10–20% · With luck
Fringe-Lipped Bat
LC

Fringe-Lipped Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Trachops cirrhosus

Insufficient data
Pallas's Long-tongued Bat
LC

Pallas's Long-tongued Bat

🌅 Crepuscular Mammal

Glossophaga soricina

Insufficient data
golden bat
LC

golden bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Mimon bennettii

Insufficient data
Hairy Big-eyed Bat
LC

Hairy Big-eyed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Chiroderma villosum

Insufficient data
Gervais's Fruit Eating Bat

Gervais's Fruit Eating Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Artibeus cinereus

Insufficient data
little big-eared bat
LC

little big-eared bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Micronycteris megalotis

Insufficient data
Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat
LC

Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Sturnira tildae

Insufficient data
MacConnell's bat
LC

MacConnell's bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Mesophylla macconnelli

Insufficient data
lesser spear-nosed bat
LC

lesser spear-nosed bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Phyllostomus elongatus

Insufficient data
Vampyressa nymphaea
LC

Vampyressa nymphaea

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Vampyriscus nymphaea

0–10% · With luck
Chestnut Short-Tailed Bat
LC

Chestnut Short-Tailed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Carollia castanea

Insufficient data
Hairy Big-Eared Bat
LC

Hairy Big-Eared Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Micronycteris hirsuta

Insufficient data
Heller's Broad-nosed Bat
LC

Heller's Broad-nosed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Platyrrhinus helleri

Insufficient data
Dermanura azteca
LC

Dermanura azteca

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Artibeus aztecus

Insufficient data
Orange Nectar Bat
LC

Orange Nectar Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Lonchophylla robusta

Insufficient data
Cozumelan Golden Bat
LC

Cozumelan Golden Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Mimon cozumelae

0–10% · With luck
Dark Fruit-eating Bat
LC

Dark Fruit-eating Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Artibeus obscurus

Insufficient data
Greater Broad-nosed Bat
LC

Greater Broad-nosed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Platyrrhinus vittatus

Insufficient data
Yellow-throated Big-eared Bat
LC

Yellow-throated Big-eared Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Lampronycteris brachyotis

Insufficient data
Northern Little Yellow-eared Bat
LC

Northern Little Yellow-eared Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Vampyressa thyone

Insufficient data
Pale Spear-Nosed Bat
LC

Pale Spear-Nosed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Phyllostomus discolor

Insufficient data
Mimon crenulatum
LC

Mimon crenulatum

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Gardnerycteris crenulatum

0–10% · With luck
little yellow-eared bat

little yellow-eared bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Vampyressa pusilla

Insufficient data
Tomes's Sword-nosed Bat
LC

Tomes's Sword-nosed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Lonchorhina aurita

Insufficient data
Great Stripe-faced Bat
LC

Great Stripe-faced Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Vampyrodes major

Insufficient data
Sowell’s Short-tailed Bat
LC

Sowell’s Short-tailed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Carollia sowelli

Insufficient data
Spectral Bat
NT

Spectral Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Vampyrum spectrum

Insufficient data
Buffy Broad-nosed Bat
LC

Buffy Broad-nosed Bat

🌅 Crepuscular Mammal

Platyrrhinus infuscus

Insufficient data
Northern Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat

Northern Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Tonatia bakeri

Insufficient data
Salvin's big-eyed bat
LC

Salvin's big-eyed bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Chiroderma salvini

Insufficient data
White-throated Round-eared Bat

White-throated Round-eared Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Lophostoma silvicola

Insufficient data
Common Big-eared Bat
LC

Common Big-eared Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Micronycteris microtis

Insufficient data
Northern Yellow-shouldered Bat
LC

Northern Yellow-shouldered Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Sturnira parvidens

Insufficient data
Gray Short-Tailed Bat
LC

Gray Short-Tailed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Carollia subrufa

Insufficient data
Diaemus youngi

Diaemus youngi

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Diaemus youngii

Insufficient data
Dermanura watsoni
LC

Dermanura watsoni

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Artibeus watsoni

Insufficient data
Fischer's little fruit bat
LC

Fischer's little fruit bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Rhinophylla fischerae

Insufficient data
Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat
LC

Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Vampyriscus bidens

Insufficient data
Schmidts's big-eared bat
LC

Schmidts's big-eared bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Micronycteris schmidtorum

Insufficient data
Goldman's Nectar Bat
LC

Goldman's Nectar Bat

Mammal

Lonchophylla concava

Insufficient data
Hart's Fruit-eating Bat
LC

Hart's Fruit-eating Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Enchisthenes hartii

Insufficient data

Showing the 60 most likely of 85 species — the park table below covers them all.

📅 Monthly Probability

Probability-weighted average across the group's species

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🕐 When They're Spotted

When the group's species are recorded (aggregated)

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Where to see New World Leaf-nosed Bats

Worldwide records of this group (human observations from 2019 onwards, GBIF). Pins mark our parks — tap one for the chance of seeing at least one species of the group there.

Parks Ranked

Chance of seeing at least one species of the group · number of its species present

#ParkCountrySpeciesP(≥1)
1 Braulio Carrillo National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 25
80–90%
2 Main Ridge Forest Reserve 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago 11
70–80%
3 Calakmul Biosphere Reserve 🇲🇽 Mexico 20
70–80%
4 Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve 🇲🇽 Mexico 16
60–70%
5 Yasuní National Park 🇪🇨 Ecuador 24
60–70%
6 Soberanía National Park 🇵🇦 Panama 20
60–70%
7 Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve 🇪🇨 Ecuador 17
50–60%
8 Tambopata National Reserve 🇵🇪 Peru 13
40–50%
9 Bastimentos Island National Marine Park 🇵🇦 Panama 7
40–50%
10 Santa Rosa National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 10
40–50%
11 Celaque National Park 🇭🇳 Honduras 5
40–50%
12 Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 14
40–50%
13 Manu National Park 🇵🇪 Peru 15
40–50%
14 Chagres National Park 🇵🇦 Panama 7
30–40%
15 Sierra de la Macarena National Park 🇨🇴 Colombia 5
30–40%
16 Manuel Antonio National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 2
30–40%
17 Emas National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil 3
30–40%
18 Rincón de la Vieja National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 5
30–40%
19 Piedras Blancas National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 6
30–40%
20 Corcovado National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 6
30–40%
21 La Amistad International Park (Panama) 🇵🇦 Panama 11
30–40%
22 Chapada dos Guimarães National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil 3
30–40%
23 Noel Kempff Mercado National Park 🇧🇴 Bolivia 1
20–30%
24 Cabo Blanco Absolute Nature Reserve 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 5
20–30%
25 Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve 🇲🇽 Mexico 6
20–30%
26 Tortuguero National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 5
20–30%
27 Tayrona National Natural Park 🇨🇴 Colombia 3
20–30%
28 Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park 🇲🇽 Mexico 3
20–30%
29 Arenal Volcano National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 7
20–30%
30 Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas 🇧🇷 Brazil 3
20–30%
31 San Lorenzo Protected Forest 🇵🇦 Panama 1
20–30%
32 Masaya Volcano National Park 🇳🇮 Nicaragua 2
10–20%
33 Ciénaga de Zapata 🇨🇺 Cuba 1
10–20%
34 Palo Verde National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 2
10–20%
35 Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 6
10–20%
36 Farallones de Cali National Natural Park 🇨🇴 Colombia 3
10–20%
37 Anavilhanas National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil 2
10–20%
38 Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park 🇯🇲 Jamaica 1
10–20%
39 Utría National Natural Park 🇨🇴 Colombia 1
10–20%
40 La Tigra National Park 🇭🇳 Honduras 1
10–20%
41 Cordillera Azul National Park 🇵🇪 Peru 2
10–20%
42 El Palmar National Park 🇦🇷 Argentina 1
10–20%
43 Darién National Park 🇵🇦 Panama 3
10–20%
44 Serra dos Órgãos National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil 2
10–20%
45 Cusuco National Park 🇭🇳 Honduras 1
10–20%
46 El Impenetrable National Park 🇦🇷 Argentina 1
10–20%
47 Pico Bonito National Park 🇭🇳 Honduras 1
10–20%
48 Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve 🇲🇽 Mexico 2
10–20%
49 Tijuca National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil 3
10–20%
50 Cumbres de Monterrey National Park 🇲🇽 Mexico 4
10–20%
51 Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 2
10–20%
52 Iguazú National Park 🇦🇷 Argentina 3
10–20%
53 Podocarpus National Park 🇪🇨 Ecuador 2
10–20%
54 Cañón del Sumidero National Park 🇲🇽 Mexico 1
10–20%
55 Carara National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 1
0–10%
56 Biotopo Cerro Cahuí 🇬🇹 Guatemala 1
0–10%
57 Iberá National Park 🇦🇷 Argentina 1
0–10%
58 Ostional Wildlife Refuge 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 1
0–10%
59 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 🇧🇿 Belize 1
0–10%
60 Bahía de Loreto National Park 🇲🇽 Mexico 2
0–10%
61 Volcán Barú National Park 🇵🇦 Panama 1
0–10%
62 Madidi National Park 🇧🇴 Bolivia 1
0–10%
63 Chirripó National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 1
0–10%
64 Tenorio Volcano National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 1
0–10%
65 Machalilla National Park 🇪🇨 Ecuador 1
0–10%
66 Parque Natural Metropolitano 🇵🇦 Panama 1
0–10%
67 Cerro Azul Meámbar National Park 🇭🇳 Honduras 1
0–10%
68 Cahuita National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 1
<5%
69 Los Nevados National Natural Park 🇨🇴 Colombia 1
<5%
70 Iguaçu National Park 🇧🇷 Brazil 1
<5%
71 Grand Canyon National Park 🇺🇸 United States 1
<5%