What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Seba's Short-tailed Bat been recorded?

Carollia perspicillata occurrence evidence comes from 10,071 records in 21 countries and territories, from 1897 to 2026. Most records come from Venezuela.

Seba's Short-tailed Bat
Seba's Short-tailed Bat — Photo (display-sized rendition): Desmodus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
MammaliaChiropteraPhyllostomidaeCarollia

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

10,071 records across 21 countries and territories, 1897–2026.

Carollia perspicillata · GBIF taxon key 2433176

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: July.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18972026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Seba's Short-tailed Bat has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Seba's Short-tailed Bat. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Venezuela 2,853
Colombia 1,697
Bolivia 972
Costa Rica 947
Peru 936
Ecuador 571
Panama 422
Trinidad & Tobago 320
Mexico 316
Brazil 288
Guyana 203
Honduras 153
Belize 91
Nicaragua 86
El Salvador 85
Suriname 44
Paraguay 31
Guatemala 22
French Guiana 21
United States 11
Argentina 2
Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.