Eldorado broad-nosed bat

The Eldorado broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus aurarius, is a bat of the family Phyllostomidae, the New World leaf-nosed bats, placed in the genus Platyrrhinus and the subfamily Stenodermatinae. It was first described by Handley and Ferris in 1972 under the name Vampyrops aurarius, from a holotype collected at about 1,000 metres elevation, 85 kilometres south-southeast of El Dorado in Bolivar state, Venezuela. The species is found in Guyana, Suriname, northern Brazil and southern Venezuela, which places it in the Neotropical realm. The Mammal Diversity Database records it as living and found in the wild, and the IUCN Red List assesses it as Least Concern.