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Diphylla ecaudata Spix 1823

Creators

  • 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy) American Museum of Natural History
  • 2. Integrative Research Center Field Museum of Natural History

Description

Diphylla ecaudata Spix, 1823

VOUCHER MATERIAL: El Diamante: 1 adult female (MUSM 39188), 2 adult males (FMNH 203522; MUSM 39189); see table 6 for measurements.

IDENTIFICATION: Descriptions and measurements of Diphylla ecaudata have been provided by Swanepoel and Genoways (1979), Greenhall et al. (1984), and Kwon and Gardner (2008). Currently two subspecies are recognized: D. e. centralis (southern United States southward through eastern Mexico and Central America) and D. e. ecaudata (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil, excluding the central Amazon basin) (Greenhall et al., 1984; Kwon and Gardner, 2008). Our Mayo River basin specimens exhibit the diagnostic characteristics of the species: thumb small (usually less than 13 mm), lacking basal pads; uropatagium well furred; occlusal margin of lower inner incisors with four lobes, of lower outer incisors with three lobes; two upper incisors and two lower molars on each side (Kwon and Gardner, 2008; Cirranello et al., 2016). Our Mayo River basin voucher material represents the nominate subspecies.

TABLE 6

External and craniodental measurements (mm) and weights (g) of Desmodus rotundus and Diphylla ecaudata

REMARKS: Our female (MUSM 39188) was lactating.

Notes

Published as part of Velazco, Paúl M. & Patterson, Bruce D., 2019, Small Mammals Of The Mayo River Basin In Northern Peru, With The Description Of A New Species Of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), pp. 1-69 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (429) on pages 14-15

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Biodiversity

Collection code
MUSM, FMNH
Family
Phyllostomidae
Genus
Diphylla
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
MUSM 39188, FMNH 203522, MUSM 39189
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Spix
Species
ecaudata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Diphylla ecaudata Spix, 1823 sec. Velazco & Patterson, 2019

References

  • Swanepoel, P., and H. H. Genoways. 1979. Morphometrics. In R. J. Baker, J. K. Jones, Jr., and D. C. Carter (editors), Biology of bats of the New World family Phyllostomatidae, Part III: 1 - 441. Special Publications, Texas Tech University Museum 16.
  • Greenhall, A. M., U. Schmidt, and G. Joermann. 1984. Diphylla ecaudata. Mammalian Species 227: 1 - 3.
  • Kwon, M., and A. L. Gardner. 2008 (" 2007 "). Subfamily Desmodontinae J. A. Wagner, 1840. In A. L. Gardner (editor), Mammals of South America, vol. 1: Marsupials, xenarthrans, shrews, and bats: 218 - 224. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Cirranello, A. L., N. B. Simmons, S. Solari, and R. J. Baker. 2016. Morphological diagnoses of higherlevel phyllostomid taxa (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Acta Chiropterologica 18: 39 - 71.