Western broad-nosed bat

The western broad-nosed bat (Platyrrhinus nitelinea) is a leaf-nosed bat of the family Phyllostomidae that is found in Colombia and Ecuador. Velazco and Gardner described it in 2009 in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, in a paper on a new species of Platyrrhinus from western Colombia and Ecuador that also revised the diagnoses of two related species, Platyrrhinus aquilus and Platyrrhinus umbratus. It belongs to the order Chiroptera and the class Mammalia, and GBIF records its English common name as the Western broad-nosed bat. The IUCN Red List category recorded by GBIF for this species is Data Deficient, which means there is too little information to judge its risk of extinction.