Orinoco sword-nosed bat

The Orinoco sword-nosed bat (Lonchorhina orinocensis) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae, the leaf-nosed bats. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Mammal Species of the World describes its distribution as Venezuela and south-eastern Colombia, and gives the type locality as Boca de Villacoa, about 50 kilometres north-east of Puerto Paez in the Venezuelan state of Bolivar. The species was described by Linares and Ojasti in 1971 and belongs to the genus Lonchorhina in the subfamily Phyllostominae, where it heads the orinocensis species group. That reference lists the common name Orinocoan sword-nosed bat and points to a distribution map published by Handley and Ochoa in 1997. The infobox of its English Wikipedia article gives its present IUCN status as Vulnerable.