| Tomes's sword-nosed bat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Phyllostomidae |
| Genus: | Lonchorhina |
| Species: | L. aurita
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| Binomial name | |
| Lonchorhina aurita Tomes, 1863
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Tomes's sword-nosed bat (Lonchorhina aurita), also known as the common sword-nosed bat is a bat species from South and Central America. It is also found in the Bahamas, but is known from only one specimen collected on the island of New Providence.
In 2006, the bat was rediscovered in the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia by scientists Aideé Vargas and Kathrin Barboza Marquez. Prior to their find, it was believed that the bat had been extinct in Bolivia for 72 years. There has since been an Ecological Sanctuary established at the town of San Juan de Corralito located in the Ángel Sandoval Province to protect the species.[2]
- ^ Solari, S. (2015). "Lonchorhina aurita". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T12270A22039503. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T12270A22039503.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Oblitas Zamora, Mónica (27 October 2013). "Kathrin Barboza, una científica "top" en américa latina" (in Spanish). Cochabamba, Bolivia: Los Tiempos. Archived from the original on 31 October 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2015.