Desmodus

{{Short description|Genus of bats}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Desmodus rotundus A Catenazzi.jpg

| image_caption = Common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)

| taxon = Desmodus

| authority = Wied-Neuwied, 1826

| type_species = Desmodus rufus

| type_species_authority = Wied-Neuwied, 1826

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =Desmodus archaeodaptes†

Desmodus draculae†

Desmodus rotundus

Desmodus stocki†

}}

Desmodus is a genus of bats which—along with the genera Diaemus and Diphylla—are allied as the subfamily Desmodontinae, the carnivorous, blood-consuming vampire bats of the New World leaf-nosed bat family Phyllostomidae.

The genus was erected in 1826 to accommodate a new species Desmodus rufus described by Maximilian Wied in the second volume of his work detailing his explorations in Brazil.{{cite book |last1=Wied |first1=M. |title=Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte von Brasilien / |date=1826 |publisher=Im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs |location=Weimar |volume=2 |pages=231–238 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32972279}}{{cite book | last1=Wilson | first1=Don E. | last2=Reeder | first2=DeeAnn M. | title=Mammal Species of the World | publisher=JHU Press | publication-place=Baltimore | date=2005 | isbn=0-8018-8221-4 | oclc=ocm57557352 | page=}} The type species was previously described with the name Phyllostoma rotundus by Étienne Geoffroy in 1810.

• subfamilia Desmodontinae

:* genus Desmodus

::* {{extinct}}Desmodus archaeodaptes, extinct,{{cite journal|last1=Morgan| first1= G. S.| last2= Linares| first2= O. J.| last3= Ray| first3= C. E.| year=1988| title= New species of fossil vampire bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Desmodontidae) from Florida and Venezuela| journal= Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington| volume= 101| issue=4| pages= 912–928}}

::* {{extinct}}Desmodus draculae – giant vampire bat, extinct,{{cite book | last=Turvey | first=S.T. | title=Holocene Extinctions | publisher=OUP Oxford | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-19-157998-1 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbU-F42JU1AC&pg=PA41 | page=41 |chapter=Holocene mammal extinctions}}{{cite web | last=Holmes | first=Branden | title=Desmodus draculae (Giant vampire bat) | website=The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database | date=2011-01-18 | url=https://recentlyextinctspecies.com/chiroptera/desmodus-draculae}}

::* Desmodus rotundus – common vampire bat, extant,{{cite iucn |author=Barquez, R. |author2=Perez, S. |author3=Miller, B. |author4=Diaz, M. |year=2015 |title=Desmodus rotundus |volume=2015 |page=e.T6510A21979045 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T6510A21979045.en |access-date=27 March 2024}}

:::* {{extinct}}Desmodus rotundus puntajudensis (Desmodus puntajudensis) - Cuban vampire bat, extinct,{{cite journal | last=Suárez | first=William | title=Taxonomic Status of the Cuban Vampire Bat (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Desmodontinae: Desmodus) | journal=Caribbean Journal of Science | publisher=University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez | volume=41 | issue=4 | date=2005-12-01 | issn=0008-6452 | url=http://www.redciencia.cu/geobiblio/paper/2005_Suarez,%20W._Taxonomic%20Status%20of%20the%20Cuban%20Vampire%20Bat.pdf }}{{Cite journal|last=Orihuela|first=Johanset|date=2011|title=Skull variation of the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae): Taxonomic implications for the Cuban fossil vampire bat Desmodus puntajudensis|url=http://chiropteraneotropical.net/index.php/cn/article/view/113|journal=Chiroptera Neotropical|language=en-US|volume=17|issue=1|pages=863–876|issn=2317-6105|access-date=2019-05-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618025702/http://chiropteraneotropical.net/index.php/cn/article/view/113|archive-date=2018-06-18|url-status=dead}}

::* {{extinct}}Desmodus stocki – Stock's vampire bat, extinct.{{cite journal |last=Knox Jones Jr. |first=J. |year=1958 |title=Pleistocene Bats from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico |journal=University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History |volume=9 |issue=14 |pages=389–396 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2978493}}