Micronycteris megalotis (Gray, 1842). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 10:257. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Sâo Paulo, Pereque. DISTRIBUTION: Tamaulipas and Jalisco (Mexico) to Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil; Trinidad and Tobago; Margarita Isl (Venezuela); Grenada. SYNONYMS: elongatum, homezi, megalotes, mexicana, microtis, pygmaeus, scrobiculatum, typica. COMMENTS: Subgenus Micronycteris. Includes microtis; see Gardner et al. (1970:715) and Jones et al. (1977:6). See Alonso-Mejia and Medellin (1991, Mammalian Species, 376).Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735306