Nyctinomops macrotis
Authors/Creators
- 1. Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Brazil
- 2. Centro de Estudios en Zoología Aplicada (CEZA), Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnología, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela
- 3. Área de Zoología, Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado de la Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- 4. Neotropical Bat Acoustic and Risk Assessments, 11384 Alpine Rd., Canadian Lakes, MI 49346, USA
- 5. Tetrapoda Consultoria Ambiental Ltda, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil
Description
Nyctinomops macrotis (Gray, 1839)
Summary of captures.
One female (CMARF 2225).
External measurements and weight.
TLB: 137.00, TL: 60.00, LHL: 7.00, EL: 27.00, W: 22.00.
Morphological description.
Dorsal and ventral pelage reddish brown. Ears large, fused at the midline of the forehead and nearly reaching the nostrils. Nostrils directed laterally. The upper lip is deeply furrowed by wrinkles (Fig. 14).
The skull is large, with a narrow rostrum (Fig. 14). Sagittal and lambdoidal crests are present and prominent. Upper incisors parallel. First upper premolar diminutive. Lacrimal processes are well-developed. Basisphenoid pits are large and deep. Lower incisors bifid. Some skull measurements are shown in Table 1.
Identification.
The forearm length is> 55 mm, the total length of the skull is> 22 mm, and the basisphenoid pits are large and relatively deep, distinguishing the only captured individual of this species from N. laticaudatus and N. aurispinosus (Eger 2008).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Molossidae
- Genus
- Nyctinomops
- Species
- macrotis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nyctinomops macrotis (Gray, 1839) sec. García, Ochoa-G, Poma-Urey, Miller, Falcão & Valle, 2024
References
- Eger J (2008) The family Molossidae. In: Gardner AL (Ed.) Mammals of South America. Vol. 1. The University of Chicago Press, 399–439.