Phyllostomidae (New World Leaf-nosed Bats)

Family

New World Leaf-nosed Bats

Phyllostomidae

85 species in our catalog · found in 74 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

Daily sighting probability ~40% · Likely
Common tent-making Bat
LC

Common tent-making Bat

☀️ Diurnal Mammal

Uroderma bilobatum

Daily sighting probability ~30% · Possible
Greater Spear-nosed Bat
LC

Greater Spear-nosed Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Phyllostomus hastatus

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat
LC

Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Artibeus jamaicensis

Daily sighting probability ~30% · Possible
Big-eared Woolly Bat
LC

Big-eared Woolly Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Chrotopterus auritus

Daily sighting probability ~30% · Possible
Amber Fruit-eating Bat

Amber Fruit-eating Bat

Mammal

Artibeus ravus

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Hart's Fruit-eating Bat
LC

Hart's Fruit-eating Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Enchisthenes hartii

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Waterhouse's Leaf-nosed Bat
LC

Waterhouse's Leaf-nosed Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Macrotus waterhousii

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Jamaican flower bat
CR Endemic

Jamaican flower bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Phyllonycteris aphylla

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Hairy-legged Vampire Bat
LC

Hairy-legged Vampire Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Diphylla ecaudata

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Seba's Short-tailed Bat
LC

Seba's Short-tailed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Carollia perspicillata

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Geoffroy's tailless bat
LC

Geoffroy's tailless bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Anoura geoffroyi

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Miller's long-tongued bat
LC

Miller's long-tongued bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Glossophaga longirostris

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat
LC

Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Artibeus planirostris

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Vampire Bat
LC

Vampire Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Desmodus rotundus

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Honduran Yellow-shouldered Bat
LC

Honduran Yellow-shouldered Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Sturnira hondurensis

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Pacific Tent-making Bat

Pacific Tent-making Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Uroderma convexum

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Great Fruit-eating Bat
LC

Great Fruit-eating Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Artibeus lituratus

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
wrinkle-faced bat
LC

wrinkle-faced bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Centurio senex

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Pygmy Fruit Eating Bat

Pygmy Fruit Eating Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Artibeus phaeotis

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
fringe-lipped bat
LC

fringe-lipped bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Trachops cirrhosus

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Pallas's Long-tongued Bat
LC

Pallas's Long-tongued Bat

🌅 Crepuscular Mammal

Glossophaga soricina

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
golden bat
LC

golden bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Mimon bennettii

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
White-lined Broad-nosed Bat
LC

White-lined Broad-nosed Bat

☀️ Diurnal Mammal

Platyrrhinus lineatus

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Hairy Big-eyed Bat
LC

Hairy Big-eyed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Chiroderma villosum

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Gervais's Fruit Eating Bat

Gervais's Fruit Eating Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Artibeus cinereus

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
little big-eared bat
LC

little big-eared bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Micronycteris megalotis

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat
LC

Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Sturnira tildae

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
MacConnell's bat
LC

MacConnell's bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Mesophylla macconnelli

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
lesser spear-nosed bat
LC

lesser spear-nosed bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Phyllostomus elongatus

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Striped Yellow-eared Bat
LC

Striped Yellow-eared Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Vampyriscus nymphaea

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
chestnut short-tailed bat
LC

chestnut short-tailed bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Carollia castanea

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
hairy big-eared bat
LC

hairy big-eared bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Micronycteris hirsuta

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Heller's Broad-nosed Bat
LC

Heller's Broad-nosed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Platyrrhinus helleri

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Aztec Fruit Eating Bat

Aztec Fruit Eating Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Artibeus aztecus

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Striped Spearnosed Bat

Striped Spearnosed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Gardnerycteris crenulatum

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
orange nectar bat
LC

orange nectar bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Lonchophylla robusta

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Dark Fruit-eating Bat
LC

Dark Fruit-eating Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Artibeus obscurus

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Cozumelan Golden Bat
LC

Cozumelan Golden Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Mimon cozumelae

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
Greater Broad-nosed Bat
LC

Greater Broad-nosed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Platyrrhinus vittatus

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Yellow-throated Big-eared Bat
LC

Yellow-throated Big-eared Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Lampronycteris brachyotis

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Northern Little Yellow-eared Bat
LC

Northern Little Yellow-eared Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Vampyressa thyone

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
pale spear-nosed bat
LC

pale spear-nosed bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Phyllostomus discolor

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Common Big-eared Bat
LC

Common Big-eared Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Micronycteris microtis

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
little yellow-eared bat

little yellow-eared bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Vampyressa pusilla

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Tomes's Sword-nosed Bat
LC

Tomes's Sword-nosed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Lonchorhina aurita

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Great Stripe-faced Bat
LC

Great Stripe-faced Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Vampyrodes major

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Buffy Broad-nosed Bat
LC

Buffy Broad-nosed Bat

🌅 Crepuscular Mammal

Platyrrhinus infuscus

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Sowell’s Short-tailed Bat
LC

Sowell’s Short-tailed Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Carollia sowelli

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
spectral bat
NT

spectral bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Vampyrum spectrum

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Salvin's big-eyed bat
LC

Salvin's big-eyed bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Chiroderma salvini

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
White-throated Round-eared Bat
LC

White-throated Round-eared Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Lophostoma silvicola

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Northern Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat

Northern Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Tonatia bakeri

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Northern Yellow-shouldered Bat
LC

Northern Yellow-shouldered Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Sturnira parvidens

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
gray short-tailed bat
LC

gray short-tailed bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Carollia subrufa

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
White-winged Vampire Bat

White-winged Vampire Bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Diaemus youngii

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Thomas's Fruit-eating Bat
LC

Thomas's Fruit-eating Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Artibeus watsoni

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Fischer's little fruit bat
LC

Fischer's little fruit bat

🌙 Nocturnal Mammal

Rhinophylla fischerae

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat
LC

Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat

☀️🌙 Day & Night Mammal

Vampyriscus bidens

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data
Goldman's Nectar Bat
LC

Goldman's Nectar Bat

Mammal

Lonchophylla concava

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data

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

Daily sighting probability by month

Probability-weighted average across the group's species

~10%
Jan
~10%
Feb
~10%
Mar
~10%
Apr
~10%
May
~10%
Jun
~10%
Jul
~10%
Aug
~10%
Sep
~10%
Oct
~10%
Nov
~10%
Dec

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

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