
Desmodus rotundus
Tortuguero, Corcovado and Monteverde are among the five atlas places where the Common Vampire Bat is recorded. Its records concentrate in Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Guyana and Guatemala, and the atlas map follows where these 1,177 records from 21 countries cluster.
Recorded seasons differ by region for Desmodus rotundus, and each place page shows the months where it was documented.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Common Vampire Bat as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.