#0387 · 🦊 mammals
Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat
🇳🇱 Jamaicavruchtenvleermuis ·Artibeus jamaicensis
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- 1. © delmer jonathan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © J. Ismael Arellano Ciau · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © Joaquín Ugarte · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © J. Ismael Arellano Ciau · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. © Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. © Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Jamaican , common or Mexican fruit bat ( Artibeus jamaicensis ) is a fruit eating bat native to Mexico, through Central America to northwestern South America, as well as the Greater and many of the Lesser Antilles. It is also an uncommon resident of the Southern Bahamas. Populations east of the Andes in South America are now usually regarded a separate species, the flat-faced fruit-eating bat ( A. planirostris ). The distinctive features of the Jamaican fruit bat (which however...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 3,377 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by William Elford Leach in 1821 (205 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat
- Nederlands
- Jamaicavruchtenvleermuis
- scientific name
- Artibeus jamaicensis
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Chiroptera
- family
- Phyllostomidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,377
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1821 by William Elford Leach
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Phyllostomidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 41005, Wikidata Q301175, GBIF 2433272, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.