Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat
Artibeus jamaicensis
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassMammalia (Mamífers)
- OrderChiroptera (Ratpenats)
- FamilyPhyllostomidae (New World Leaf-nosed Bats)
- GenusArtibeus (Neotropical Fruit Bats)
- SpeciesArtibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat)
Closest Relatives at Tortuguero National Park
White Bat
Ectophylla alba
Vampire Bat
Desmodus rotundus
Vampyressa nymphaea
Vampyriscus nymphaea
Common tent-making Bat
Uroderma bilobatum
Proboscis Bat
Rhynchonycteris naso
Greater Sac-winged Bat
Saccopteryx bilineata
Spix's Disk-winged Bat
Thyroptera tricolor
Lesser Sac-winged Bat
Saccopteryx leptura
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat at Tortuguero National 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