“…Noctilio albiventris presents a wide but discontinuous range from southern Mexico to northern Argentina and western Uruguay (Reis et al 2007, Gardner 2008, including the Caribbean Islands (López-Baucells et al 2016). In Brazil, it is found in all major phytogeographic domains, including Amazônia (Acre, Amazonas, Amapá, Pará, Roraima, Maranhão, and Mato Grosso states), Cerrado (Mato Grosso, São Paulo, Tocantins, and Minas Gerais), Caatinga (Bahia, Ceará, Piauí, Sergipe, and Minas Gerais), Pantanal (Mato Grosso do Sul), Atlantic Forest (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, and Sergipe), and Pampa (Paraná) (Miretzki 2003, Gardner 2008, Dias et al 2009, Bezerra and Marinho-Filho 2010, Rocha et al 2010, Peracchi and Nogueira 2010, Pavan et al 2013, Reis et al 2013, Nogueira et al 2015, Garbino 2016. We present here the first record of N. albiventris for the Cerrado in the state of Maranhão and extend the known distribution of this species in this biome.…”