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First records of hypopigmentation disorders in the Peters’ ghost-faced bat Mormoops megalophylla (Chiroptera, Mormoopidae)

  • Itandehui Hernández-Aguilar and Antonio Santos-Moreno EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: March 8, 2018
Mammalia
From the journal Mammalia Volume 82 Issue 6

Abstract

The pigmentation process can be affected throughout development and result in aberrant pigmentation. This can derive not only from genetic mutations, but also from other sources like infectious diseases that result in color patterns which are different from those characteristic of each species. In bats, most pigmentation abnormalities have been observed in the families Phyllostomidae and Vespertilionidae, probably because they are the largest families in number of species and have been exceptionally well studied. For the Mormoopidae family only two cases are known. This paper documents the first case of hypopigmentation disorder in the bat Mormoops megalophylla throughout its range, recorded in two specimens captured in the state of Oaxaca, México.

Keywords: coloration; Mexico; Oaxaca; piebaldism; pigmentation disorder

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the authorities of Santa María Huatulco and especially Mr. Armando Ramírez for allowing us to work in his coffee plantation, the Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México for the financial support to carry out the project (support SIP-20161645 to the second author) and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de México for the postgraduate grant conferred to the first author.

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Received: 2017-06-14
Accepted: 2018-02-09
Published Online: 2018-03-08
Published in Print: 2018-11-27

©2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2017-0075
Keywords for this article
coloration; Mexico; Oaxaca; piebaldism; pigmentation disorder

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Obituary
  3. In memoriam Jamshid Darvish
  4. Museology/history of sciences
  5. On the shoulders of giants: Reginald Innes Pocock and integrative mammal research in museums and zoos
  6. Ecology
  7. Space use and movement of jaguar (Panthera onca) in western Paraguay
  8. A review of the status of the Western polecat Mustela putorius: a neglected and declining species?
  9. Diversity of primates and other mammals in the middle Purus basin in the Brazilian Amazon
  10. Rapid expansion of the American mink poses a serious threat to the European mink in Spain
  11. New reports of the presence and ecology of the Sumatran striped rabbit (Nesolagus netscheri) in South Sumatra
  12. Reproduction of the golden jackal (Canis aureus) outside current resident breeding populations in Europe: evidence from the Czech Republic
  13. Dung-pile use by guanacos in eastern Patagonia
  14. Conservation
  15. Stable isotope analysis as a minimal-invasive method for dietary studies on the highly endangered Common hamster (Cricetus cricetus)
  16. New localities, an update on the conservation status and ethnographic notes for the dingiso tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus mbaiso Flannery, Boeadi et Szalay (Diprotodontia: Macropodidae)
  17. Biogeography
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  19. Recent records of dhole (Cuon alpinus, Pallas 1811) in Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India
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  22. Historical record of Holochilus vulpinus (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) from northern Patagonia, Argentina
  23. Taxonomy/phylogeny
  24. On the identity of Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus 1758
  25. Annual reviewer acknowledgement
  26. Reviewer acknowledgement Mammalia volume 82 (2018)
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