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Review of ocular alterations in bats in America and notes on a new case for Saccopteryx bilineata (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae)

  • Sebastián Herazo-Callejas ORCID logo , Miguel Parejo-Tovar ORCID logo und Julio J. Chacón-Pacheco ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 15. Januar 2024
Mammalia
Aus der Zeitschrift Mammalia Band 88 Heft 2

Abstract

Morphological abnormalities in bats are rarely reported and, particularly, ocular problems are relatively scarce in the literature. We present a review of the records of ocular alterations in bats of the American continent and document for the first time a case of ocular alteration in the species Saccopteryx bilineata in northern Colombia. In this study we found cases of corneal opacity (5/19 individuals), lesions and trauma, microphthalmia (4/19 individuals), anophthalmia (4/19 individuals) and adnexal diseases (2/19 individuals). We encourage researchers to report their observations of bats with ocular anomalies, as this information could be useful for estimating occurrence rates and addressing questions associated with the social behaviour of the species and on their effects on natural populations.

Keywords: Emballonuridae; social behaviour; livestock; morphological abnormalities
Corresponding author: Julio J. Chacón-Pacheco, Grupo de Investigación Biodiversidad Unicórdoba, Universidad de Córdoba, Carrera 6 No. 76-103, 230002, Montería, Córdoba, Colombia; and Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Laboratorio de Ecología Funcional, Unidad de Ecología y Sistemática (UNESIS), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 110231, Bogotá, Colombia, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

To Mr. Marco for the permission to conduct field work at the installations of El Danubio livestock system.

  1. Research ethics: All the methods used in this study follow the ethical guidelines established by the American Society of Mammalogists for specimen management and transport (Sikes and The Animal Care and Use Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists 2016). No sacrifice or mistreatment of animals handled in the field was incurred.

  2. Author contributions: Sebastian Herazo Callejas was involved in conceptualization, methods and writing–original draft of the paper. Miguel Parejo Tovar carried out investigation in field. Julio Chacón-Pacheco carried out conceptualization, methods, data curation, formal analysis, investigation, supervision and writing–original draft of the paper. The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: The authors state no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

  4. Research funding: None declared.

  5. Data availability: Not applicable.

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Received: 2023-06-23
Accepted: 2023-12-21
Published Online: 2024-01-15
Published in Print: 2024-03-25

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https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2023-0076
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
Emballonuridae; social behaviour; livestock; morphological abnormalities

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Ecology
  3. Insights into surveying pangolins using ground and arboreal camera traps
  4. Reproductive aspects of female Andean bears (Tremarctos ornatus) in the Chingaza massif, eastern range of the Colombian Andes
  5. Using photo by-catch data to reliably estimate spotted hyaena densities over time
  6. Review of ocular alterations in bats in America and notes on a new case for Saccopteryx bilineata (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae)
  7. New dietary records for the rare Thomas’s Flying Squirrel (Aeromys thomasi, Sciuridae: Pteromyini) from Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
  8. A treetop diner: camera trapping reveals novel arboreal foraging by fishing cats on colonial nesting birds in Bangladesh
  9. First albino white-eared opossums in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil: records of albinism in Didelphis albiventris (Lund, 1840)
  10. Physiology
  11. Variation in leukocyte indices and immunoglobulin levels according to host density, sex, flea burden and tularemia prevalence in the common vole Microtus arvalis
  12. Evolutionary Biology
  13. Morphological symmetry of Rhipidomys mastacalis (Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetidae) in fragmented habitats of the Atlantic Forest in Northeastern Brazil: a study on the influence of the environment on an endemic species
  14. Biogeography
  15. Brandt’s Hedgehog, Paraechinus hypomelas (Brandt, 1836), new to the mammal fauna of Iraq
  16. Taxonomy/Phylogeny
  17. Resolving the taxonomic status of Ctenomys paramilloensis (Rodentia, Ctenomyidae), an Andean nominal form from Mendoza Province, Argentina
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