Platyrrhinus aquilus

Platyrrhinus aquilus is a bat of the family Phyllostomidae, the leaf-nosed bats of the Americas, placed in the subfamily Stenodermatinae, the tribe Stenodermatini and the genus Platyrrhinus, where the Mammal Diversity Database files it under the subgenus Incanycteris. That database gives its common name as the Darien broad-nosed bat. C. O. Handley Jr. and K. C. Ferris described it in 1972 under the name Vampyrops aquilus, from a holotype held at the United States National Museum (USNM 338025) collected on the head of the Rio Pucro on Cerro Mali, in the Darien region of Panama. Earlier authors treated the name as a subspecies of Platyrrhinus umbratus; the database records the species as split from P. umbratus and cites a 2009 study by P. M. Velazco and A. L. Gardner that revised the diagnoses of P. aquilus, P. dorsalis and P. umbratus. Its range falls in the Neotropic realm, with Panama listed and Colombia listed with a question mark. The database records it as living, found in the wild, and not yet evaluated on the IUCN Red List.