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First record of Micronycteris sanborni (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Central Amazonia, Brazil: range expansion and description of its echolocation

  • Adrià López-Baucells EMAIL logo , Ricardo Rocha , Ileana García-Mayes , Kevina Vulinec and Christoph F.J. Meyer
Published/Copyright: July 12, 2013
mammalia
From the journal mammalia Volume 78 Issue 1

Abstract

This note reports the first record of Micronycteris sanborni in Amazonas State, Brazil. It extends the species’ known range >2000 km northwestward and represents the first record of M. sanborni in a humid tropical ecosystem, suggesting that the species might not be exclusive to dry areas, as previously thought. The individual was captured in Vismia-dominated secondary forest within the fragmented landscape of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project. We present morphometric data and provide the first description of the echolocation calls of this poorly known species.

Keywords: echolocation; Micronycteris sanborni; Phyllostomidae; range expansion; secondary forest
Corresponding author: Adrià López-Baucells, Centre for Environmental Biology, Science Faculty, Animal Biology Department, C2 Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal; Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, C.P. 478, Manaus, AM 69011-970, Brazil; and Granollers Museum of Natural Science, Chiroptera Research Area, Av. Francesc Macià 51, 08402 Granollers, Catalonia, e-mail:

We would like to thank Prof. Jorge Palmeirim and Dr. Paulo D.E. Bobrowiec for their assistance during all phases of the project, and José L.C. Camargo, Rosely Hipólito, and Ary Jorge Ferreira for logistic support. Financial support was provided by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the grants PTDC/BIA-BIC/111184/2009 and SFRH/BD/80488/2011, and to KV through a Delaware State University Academic Enhancement Grant. We are grateful to Stephane Aulagnier and two anonymous reviewers for insightful suggestions that greatly improved the manuscript. This manuscript is number 625 of the BDFFP technical series.

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Received: 2013-1-15
Accepted: 2013-6-12
Published Online: 2013-07-12
Published in Print: 2014-02-01

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https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2013-0006
Keywords for this article
echolocation; Micronycteris sanborni; Phyllostomidae; range expansion; secondary forest

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