Mammals · La Saladita, Guerrero

Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat

Artibeus jamaicensis

Spanish: Murciélago frutero

Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat (Artibeus jamaicensis)
Photographed by pedrodyuitmex on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC · taken in Akumal, Q.R., México, not near La Saladita

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...

TaxonomyMammalia › Chiroptera › Phyllostomidae
Local recordsNot recorded by research-grade iNaturalist observations within about 50 km; listed from the site's curated guide
Global records3,321 on iNaturalist

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Cite as: “Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/artibeus-jamaicensis/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.