Phyllostomus discolor (bat)

Mass: 40.3 g based on Aguirre et al. 2002, Bernard 2001, Estrada et al. 1993, Lawlor 1973, Santana and Dumont 2009, Schondube et al. 2001, Studier et al. 1983, and Vleut et al. 2015

Diet: frugivore based on Dumont 1997 and Ortêncio-Filho and Reis 2009; insectivore based on Willig et al. 1993, Cruz-Neto et al. 2001, Dumont and Nicolay 2006, and de la Peña-Cuéllar et al. 2015; nectarivore based on Castro-Luna et al. 2007 and Kalko et al. 2008; nectarivore-frugivore based on Giannini and Kalko 2004 and Loayza and Loiselle 2009; omnivore based on Bernard 2002, Aguirre et al. 2003, Freeman and Lemen 2010, da Cunha et al. 2011, García-García et al. 2014, and Miranda et al. 2015

Abundance: 0.05 to 27.96% (median 1.49%)

Latitudinal range: -23.0° to 18.4°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (15), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (22), tropical/subtropical savanna (10)

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Found in 47 samples

Belize: Lamanai

Bolivia: Espíritu, Beni Biological Station–Biosphere Reserve (savanna)

Brazil: Pousada das Araras, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project Reserves 1501 and 1401, Reserva Ecológica Carnijo, Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Serra das Almas, Amanä Sustainable Development Reserve (terra firme high-water under-storey), Augusto Correa, Viseu, Refùgio de Vida Silvestre Mata do Junco, Middle Säo Francisco River, Praia das Neves, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Campo Grande parks, Sonora, Barreirinhas, Fazenda Congonhas (native woodland), Una (cabrucas), Ilhéus (cabrucas), Médio Rio Teles Pires, Base (wet season)

Colombia: Montería, La Reserva Natural La Montaña del Ocaso, Isla Palma, Tinije, Reserva Forestal Protectora Serranía de Coraza

Costa Rica: Cañas, Rincón de Osa

Guyana: Burro-Burro River, Kurupukari

Mexico: El Rancho (bats), Los Tuxtlas Biological Research Station (forest fragment bats), Lacanhâ (rain forest), Los Tuxtlas (forest, 1990 - 1992), Huamuchil (bats), Los Tuxtlas Biological Research Station (shaded plantation bats), Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve (partially surrounded, rainforest), Lacandona (riparian pasture), Comalcalco

Peru: Reserva Nacional Allpahuayo-Mishana, Santa Marta, Truenococha, Mishana, Parque Nacional Cerros de Amotape

Venezuela: Negra Hipólita, Mayorica

Size measurements:
body mass36.65 gN = 8Aguirre et al. 2002
body mass38.5 gN = 4Bernard 2001
body mass38 gN = 12Estrada et al. 1993
body mass42.2 gN = 4Lawlor 1973
body mass45.0 gN = 3Santana and Dumont 2009
body mass41.5 gN = 2Schondube et al. 2001
body mass44.6 gN = 6Studier et al. 1983
body mass40.8 gN = 33Vleut et al. 2015

See also Phyllostomus, Phyllostomus elongatus, Phyllostomus hastatus, Phyllostomus latifolius