Diphylla ecaudata Spix 1823
- 1. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade de Brasília (CEP 70910 - 900), Brasília, DF, Brazil. E-mail: abezerra @ fst. com. br
- 2. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade de Brasília (CEP 70910 - 900), Brasília, DF, Brazil. E-mail: jmarinho @ unb. br
Description
Diphylla ecaudata Spix 1823
Distribution. From south Texas (USA) to southward Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, and eastern Brazil. In Brazil this species has been recorded in Acre, Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Pará, Pernambuco, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia, Santa Catarina, and São Paulo states and in the Distrito Federal (Peracchi et al. 2006).
Habitat. Despites be widely distributed throughout Brazil, D. ecaudata is regionally rare and uncommon (Emmons & Feer 1997; Eisenberg & Redford 1999). Roosting in mines, caves, and rarely in hollow trees (Greenhall et al. 1984). Feeds on blood, mainly from birds. We collected one specimen in a pasture field near to limestone outcrops (14 o 30’ 25.4” S, 46 o 43’ 51.5” W) in Alvorada do Norte, GO.
Voucher specimen. One adult female – CHUNB 1277.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Phyllostomidae
- Genus
- Diphylla
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Spix
- Species
- ecaudata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Diphylla ecaudata Spix, 1823 sec. Bezerra & Marinho-Filho, 2010
References
- Peracchi, A. L., Lima, I. P., Reis, N. R., Nogueira, M. R. & Ortencio-Filho H. (2006) Ordem Chiroptera. In: Reis, N. R., Peracchi, A. L., Pedro, W. A. & Lima, I. P. (Eds), Mamiferos do Brasil. UEL, Londrina, pp. 153 - 230.
- Emmons, L. H. & Feer, F. (1997) Neotropical rainforest mammals, a field guide. 2 nd ed. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 307 pp.
- Eisenberg, J. F. & Redford, K. H. (1999) Mammals of the Neotropics, The Central Neotropics. Vol. 3. Chicago and London: Univ. Chicago Press, 624 pp.
- Greenhall, A. M., Schmidt, U. & Joermann, G. (1984) Diphylla ecaudata. Mammalian Species, 227, 1 - 3.