Melissa's yellow-eared bat

Melissa's yellow-eared bat
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Phyllostomidae
Genus:	Vampyressa
Species:	V. melissa
Binomial name
*Vampyressa melissa* Thomas, 1926

Melissa's yellow-eared bat (Vampyressa melissa) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.^[1]^[2]

Source

↑ 1.0 1.1 Tavares, V., Velazco, P. & Aguirre, L. (2008). "Vampyressa melissa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
↑ Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, retrieved 13 September 2009

Extant species of family Phyllostomidae

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Eutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera

Subfamilies: Brachyphyllinae
Carolliinae
Desmodontinae
Phyllonycterinae

Brachyphyllinae

Brachyphylla	Cuban Fruit-eating Bat (B. nana) Antillean Fruit-eating Bat (B. cavernarum)

Carolliinae

Carollia (Short-tailed Leaf-nosed Bats)	Benkeith's Short-tailed Bat (C. benkeithi) Silky Short-tailed Bat (C. brevicauda) Chestnut Short-tailed Bat (C. castanea) Colombian Short-tailed Bat (C. colombiana) Manu Short-tailed Bat (C. manu) Mono's short-tailed bat (C. monohernandezi) Seba's Short-tailed Bat (C. perspicillata) Sowell's Short-tailed Bat (C. sowelli) Gray Short-tailed Bat (C. subrufa)

Rhinophylla	Hairy Little Fruit Bat (R. alethina) Fischer's Little Fruit Bat (R. fischerae) Dwarf Little Fruit Bat (R. pumilio)

Desmodontinae
(Vampire Bats)

Desmodus	Common Vampire Bat (D. rotundus)

Diaemus	White-winged Vampire Bat (D. youngi)

Diphylla	Hairy-legged Vampire Bat (D. ecaudata)

Phyllonycterinae

Erophylla	Brown Flower Bat (E. bombifrons) Buffy Flower Bat (E. sezekorni)

Phyllonycteris	Jamaican Flower Bat (P. aphylla) Cuban Flower Bat (P. poeyi)

Subfamily Glossophaginae

Glossophagini

Anoura (Geoffroy's Long-nosed Bats)	A. aequatoris Cadena's Tailless Bat (A. cadenai) Tailed tailless bat (A. caudifera) Handley's Tailless Bat (A. cultrata) Tube-lipped Nectar Bat (A. fistulata) Geoffroy's Tailless Bat (A. geoffroyi) Broad-toothed Tailless Bat (A. latidens) Luis Manuel's Tailless Bat (A. luismanueli)

Choeroniscus	Godman's Long-tailed Bat (C. godmani) Greater Long-tailed Bat (C. periosus) Lesser Long-tongued Bat (C. minor)

Choeronycteris	Mexican Long-tongued Bat (C. mexicana)

Glossophaga	Commissaris's Long-tongued Bat (G. commissarisi) Gray Long-tongued Bat (G. leachii) Miller's Long-tongued Bat (G. longirostris) Western Long-tongued Bat (G. morenoi) Pallas's Long-tongued Bat (G. soricina)

Hylonycteris	Underwood's Long-tongued Bat (H. underwoodi)

Leptonycteris (Saussure's Long-nosed Bats)	Southern Long-nosed Bat (L. curasoae) Greater Long-nosed Bat (L. nivalis) Lesser Long-nosed Bat (L. yerbabuenae)

Lichonycteris	Dark Long-tongued Bat (L. obscura)

Monophyllus	Insular Single Leaf Bat (M. plethodon) Leach's Single Leaf Bat (M. redmani)

Musonycteris	Banana Bat (M. harrisoni)

Scleronycteris	Ega Long-tongued Bat (S. ega)

Lonchophyllini

Lionycteris	Chestnut Long-tongued Bat (L. spurrelli)

Lonchophylla	Bokermann's Nectar Bat (L. bokermanni) Cadena's Long-tongued Bat (L. cadenai) Chocoan Long-tongued Bat (L. chocoana) L. concava Dekeyser's Nectar Bat (L. dekeyseri) Arched Nectar Bat (L. fornicata) Handley's Nectar Bat (L. handleyi) Western Nectar Bat (L. hesperia) Godman's Nectar Bat (L. mordax) Orcés’s Long-tongued Bat (L. orcesi) L. orienticollina Patton's Long-tongued Bat (L. pattoni) Orange Nectar Bat (L. robusta) Thomas's Nectar Bat (L. thomasi)

Platalina	Long-snouted Bat (P. genovensium)

Xeronycteris	Vieira's Long-tongued Bat (X. vieirai)

Subfamily Phyllostominae

Micronycterini

Glyphonycteris	Behn's Bat (G. behnii) Davies's Big-eared Bat (G. daviesi) Tricolored big-eared bat (G. sylvestris)

Lampronycteris	Yellow-throated Big-eared Bat (L. brachyotis)

Macrotus (Big-eared Bats)	California Leaf-nosed Bat (M. californicus) Waterhouse's Leaf-nosed Bat (M. waterhousii)

Micronycteris (Little Big-eared Bats)	Brosset's Big-eared Bat (M. brosseti) Giovanni's Big-eared Bat (M. giovanniae) Hairy Big-eared Bat (M. hirsuta) Pirlot's Big-eared Bat (M. homezi) Matses' Big-eared Bat (M. matses) Little Big-eared Bat (M. megalotis) Common Big-eared Bat (M. microtis) White-bellied Big-eared Bat (M. minuta) Sanborn's Big-eared Bat (M. sanborni) Schmidts's Big-eared Bat (M. schmidtorum)

Neonycteris	Least Big-eared Bat (N. pusilla)

Trinycteris	Niceforo's Big-eared Bat (T. nicefori)

Vampyrini

Chrotopterus	Big-eared Woolly Bat (C. auritus)

Lophostoma	Equatorial Round-eared Bat (L. aequatorialis) Pygmy Round-eared Bat (L. brasiliense) Carriker's Round-eared Bat (L. carrikeri) Davis's Round-eared Bat (L. evotis) Schultz's Round-eared Bat (L. schulzi) White-throated Round-eared Bat (L. silvicolum) Yasuni Round-eared Bat (L. yasuni)

Tonatia (Round-eared Bats)	Greater Round-eared Bat (T. bidens) Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat (T. saurophila)

Trachops	Fringe-lipped Bat (T. cirrhosus)

Vampyrum	Spectral Bat (V. spectrum)

Lonchorhinini

Lonchorhina (Sword-nosed Bats)	Tomes's Sword-nosed Bat (L. aurita) Fernandez's Sword-nosed Bat (L. fernandezi) Northern Sword-nosed Bat (L. inusitata) Marinkelle's Sword-nosed Bat (L. marinkellei) Orinoco Sword-nosed Bat (L. orinocensis)

Macrophyllum	Long-legged Bat (M. macrophyllum)

Mimon (Gray's Spear-nosed Bats)	Golden Bat (M. bennettii) Cozumelan Golden Bat (M. cozumelae) Striped Hairy-nosed Bat (M. crenulatum) Koepcke's Spear-nosed Bat (M. koepckeae)

Phyllostomatini

Phylloderma	Pale-faced Bat (P. stenops)

Phyllostomus (Spear-nosed Bats)	Pale spear-nosed bat (P. discolor) Lesser spear-nosed bat (P. elongatus) Greater spear-nosed bat (P. hastatus) Guianan spear-nosed bat (P. latifolius)

Subfamily Stenodermatinae

Ametrida	Little White-shouldered Bat (A. centurio)

Ardops	Tree Bat (A. nichollsi)

Ariteus	Jamaican Fig-eating Bat (A. flavescens)

Artibeus (Neotropical Fruit Bats)	Subgenus Artibeus: Large Fruit-eating Bat (A. amplus) Fringed Fruit-eating Bat (A. fimbriatus) Fraternal Fruit-eating Bat (A. fraterculus) Hairy Fruit-eating Bat (A. hirsutus) Honduran Fruit-eating Bat (A. inopinatus) Jamaican Fruit Bat (A. jamaicensis) Great Fruit-eating Bat (A. lituratus) Dark Fruit-eating Bat (A. obscurus) Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat (A. planirostris) Subgenus Dermanura: Andersen's Fruit-eating Bat (A. anderseni) Aztec Fruit-eating Bat (A. aztecus) Bogota Fruit-eating Bat (A. bogotensis) Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat (A. cinereus) Silver Fruit-eating Bat (A. glaucus) Gnome Fruit-eating Bat (A. gnomus) Solitary Fruit-eating Bat (A. incomitatus) Pygmy Fruit-eating Bat (A. phaeotis) Rosenberg's Fruit-eating Bat (A. rosenbergi) Toltec Fruit-eating Bat (A. toltecus) Thomas's Fruit-eating Bat (A. watsoni) Subgenus Koopmania: Brown Fruit-eating Bat (A. concolor)

Centurio	Wrinkle-faced Bat (C. senex)

Chiroderma (Big-eyed Bats)	Brazilian Big-eyed Bat (C. doriae) Guadeloupe Big-eyed Bat (C. improvisum) Salvin's Big-eyed Bat (C. salvini) Little Big-eyed Bat (C. trinitatum) Hairy Big-eyed Bat (C. villosum)

Ectophylla	Honduran White Bat (E. alba)

Enchisthenes	Velvety Fruit-eating Bat (E. hartii)

Mesophylla	MacConnell's Bat (M. macconnelli)

Phyllops (Falcate-winged Bats)	Cuban Fig-eating Bat (P. falcatus)

Platyrrhinus	Alberico's Broad-nosed Bat (P. albericoi) P. angustirostris P. aquilus Eldorado Broad-nosed Bat (P. aurarius) Short-headed Broad-nosed Bat (P. brachycephalus) Choco Broad-nosed Bat (P. chocoensis) Thomas's Broad-nosed Bat (P. dorsalis) P. fusciventris Heller's Broad-nosed Bat (P. helleri) P. incarum Buffy Broad-nosed Bat (P. infuscus) Ismael's Broad-nosed Bat (P. ismaeli) White-lined Broad-nosed Bat (P. lineatus) Quechua Broad-nosed Bat (P. masu) Matapalo Broad-nosed Bat (P. matapalensis) Geoffroy's Rayed Bat (P. nigellus) P. nitelinea Recife Broad-nosed Bat (P. recifinus) Shadowy Broad-nosed Bat (P. umbratus) Greater Broad-nosed Bat (P. vittatus)

Pygoderma	Ipanema Bat (P. bilabiatum)

Sphaeronycteris	Visored Bat (S. toxophyllum)

Stenoderma	Red Fruit Bat (S. rufum)

Sturnira (Yellow-shouldered Bats)	Aratathomas's Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. aratathomasi) Bidentate Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. bidens) Bogota Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. bogotensis) Hairy Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. erythromos) Choco Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. koopmanhilli) Little Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. lilium) Highland Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. ludovici) Louis's Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. luisi) Greater Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. magna) Mistratoan Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. mistratensis) Talamancan Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. mordax) Lesser Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. nana) Tschudi's Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. oporaphilum) Soriano's Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. sorianoi) Thomas's Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. thomasi) Tilda's Yellow-shouldered Bat (S. tildae)

Uroderma (Tent-building Bats)	Tent-making Bat (U. bilobatum) Brown Tent-making Bat (U. magnirostrum)

Vampyressa (Yellow-eared Bats)	Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat (V. bidens) Brock's Yellow-eared Bat (V. brocki) Melissa's Yellow-eared Bat (V. melissa) Striped Yellow-eared Bat (V. nymphaea) Southern Little Yellow-eared Bat (V. pusilla) Northern Little Yellow-eared Bat (V. thyone)

Vampyrodes	Great Stripe-faced Bat (V. caraccioli)