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First report of albinism in a lactating female of the chestnut long-tongued bat Lionycteris spurrelli Thomas, 1913 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae)

  • Sebastião Maximiano Corrêa Genelhú ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Matheus Henrique Simões , Miguel Angelo Cançado Assis , Mariane Soares Ribeiro und Xavier Prous ORCID logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 2. Februar 2022
Mammalia
Aus der Zeitschrift Mammalia Band 86 Heft 3

Abstract

Albinism is a genetic disorder that causes pigmentation anomalies. Even though supposedly rare in free-living mammals, cases of albinism have been reported worldwide, particularly in bats. In this article we present a new case of albinism in a Lionycteris spurrelli Thomas, 1913. The individual, observed in an Amazon region iron ore cave, in Northern Brazil, was a lactating female with a dark-brown pelage pup.

Keywords: bats; coloration; Mammalia; neotropical region; pigmentation disorder
Corresponding author: Sebastião Maximiano Corrêa Genelhú, Laboratório de Diversidade e Sistemática de Mamíferos a Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Lavras, MG, CEP 37.200-900, Brazil; and Programa de Ecologia Aplicada da Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Lavras, MG, CEP 37.200-900, Brazil, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

We thank VALE S.A. and Ativo Ambiental, for providing logistical support for our fieldwork, and especially Leopoldo Bernardi and Robson Zampaulo.

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

  4. Research ethics: The authors declare that all procedures are in accordance with the specific requirements provided for in the Brazilian laws.

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Received: 2021-02-26
Accepted: 2021-11-26
Published Online: 2022-02-02
Published in Print: 2022-05-25

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https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2021-0030
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
bats; coloration; Mammalia; neotropical region; pigmentation disorder

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Ecology
  3. Factors influencing the success of capturing European brown bears with foot snares
  4. First tracking of an eastern spotted skunk litter from birth to independence
  5. A snapshot of rodents and shrews of agroecosystems in Ethiopian highlands using camera traps
  6. First photographic record of albinism in Baiomys taylori (Rodentia: Cricetidae)
  7. First record for a partial Isabelline colouration in a European mole, Talpa europaea, from Central Italy
  8. The natural history of the Stenodermatinae Chiroderma doriae vizottoi Taddei and Lim 2010 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in a semiarid region from Brazil
  9. Free-ranging Van Gelder’s bat Bauerus dubiaquercus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) preying on dung beetles in southern Mexico
  10. First report of albinism in a lactating female of the chestnut long-tongued bat Lionycteris spurrelli Thomas, 1913 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae)
  11. Fruits consumed by phyllostomid bats in a Peruvian Yungas forest: new dietary items for Chiroderma salvini and Lonchophylla handleyi
  12. Conservation
  13. Distribution of introduced American mink in the Northern Apennine area (Central Italy)
  14. A re-discovery of Coelops frithii (Chiroptera, Hipposideridae) from its type locality after one and a half century
  15. Ethology
  16. Vocalizations of the Sepia short-tailed Opossum Monodelphis adusta (Thomas, 1897, Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae)
  17. Evolutionary Biology
  18. Sexual size dimorphism and geographic variation in forearm length of Rafinesque’s Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) and Southeastern Myotis (Myotis austroriparius)
  19. Dental formula variations in wild and domestic Sus scrofa: is the first premolar agenesis an evolutionary trend?
  20. Taxonomy/Phylogeny
  21. Morphological and molecular confirmation of the common pipistrelle bat, Pipistrellus pipistrellus Schreber, 1774 (Vespertilionidae: Chiroptera), in Xinjiang, China
  22. Discovery of Kerivoula kachinensis and a validity of K. titania (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in China
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