#0441 · 🦊 mammals
Great Fruit-eating Bat
🇳🇱 Grote Vruchtenvleermuis ·Artibeus lituratus
📍 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil
📍 Putumayo, Ecuador
📍 Lázaro Cárdenas, Q.R., México
📍 La Joya De Los S, Orellana, EC
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © sburneo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Maria Fernanda PaQui · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Leonardo Alava · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Luis F. Aguirre · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © Arthur Tahara · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil:© pedrohenriquetunes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Putumayo, Ecuador:© Demian Hiß · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Lázaro Cárdenas, Q.R., México:© ramonjoya · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. La Joya De Los S, Orellana, EC:© Leonardo Alava · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The great fruit-eating bat ( Artibeus lituratus ) is a bat species in the family Phyllostomidae from South and Central America. It is found from Mexico to Brazil and Argentina, as well as in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago.
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.
- 2,434 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ignaz von Olfers in 1818 (208 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Great Fruit-eating Bat
- Nederlands
- Grote Vruchtenvleermuis
- scientific name
- Artibeus lituratus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Chiroptera
- family
- Phyllostomidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,434
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1818 by Ignaz von Olfers
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Phyllostomidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 41006, Wikidata Q306460, GBIF 2433270, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.