Short-headed broad-nosed bat

{{Short description|Species of bat}}

{{Speciesbox

| image = Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MAM.35838.b ven - Platyrrhinus brachycephalus - skin.jpeg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Solari, S. |date=2015 |title=Platyrrhinus brachycephalus |volume=2015 |page=e.T17567A21986909 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T17567A21986909.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Platyrrhinus

| species = brachycephalus

| authority = Rouk & Carter, 1972

| range_map = Platyrrhinus brachycephalus map.svg

}}

The short-headed broad-nosed bat (Platyrrhinus brachycephalus) is a bat species found in Bolivia, northwestern Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.{{citation

| last = Simmons

| first = Nancy B.

| contribution = Chiroptera

| pages = 312–529

| title=Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed)

| editor-last = Wilson

| editor-first = Don E.

| editor2-last = Reeder

| editor2-first = DeeAnn M.

| url = https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13801424

| publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press

| place = Baltimore

| year=2005

| isbn = 978-0-8018-8221-0

| access-date = 13 September 2009}}