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Chiroderma trinitatum Goodwin 1958

  • 1. Pós-graduação, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos 6627, Pampulha, 31270 - 901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • 2. Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M 5 S 2 C 6, Canada
  • 3. Laboratório de Mamíferos, Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, CCEN / DSE, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus I, 58059 - 900 João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

Description

The trinitatum complex

The following two species are the smallest in Chiroderma, distinguishable from larger Chiroderma spp. by their size and qualitative characteristics of the skull and dentition. However, the two species are phenotypically similar to each other. The molecular phylogenies recovered a cis-Andean haplogroup of small Chiroderma, for which the applicable name would be trinitatum Goodwin, 1958, as the sister group of C. doriae. However, the sister group of this clade is a trans-Andean haplogroup of small Chiroderma, for which the oldest name is gorgasi Handley, 1960. Under the scenario of a paraphyletic C. trinitatum, one option is to synonymize the two small species into the oldest name, which is C. doriae Thomas, 1891, and recognize three subspecies. C. d. doriae, C. d. trinitatum, and C. d. gorgasi. However, given the significant phenotypic differences among C. doriae and the other species, we recognize gorgasi and trinitatum as distinct species, bearing in mind that both are not easily diagnosed morphologically, although there are subtle dental and cranial shape differences (Lim e t al. 2020).

Chiroderma gorgasi Handley, 1960 is the name we use for the trans-Andean populations of small Chiroderma. The name gorgasi has been used as a subspecies of C. trinitatum by some authors (Barriga-Bonilla 1965; Jones & Carter 1976; Gardner 2008a). The species occurs in sympatry with C. salvini and C. v. jesupi (Table 6).

Chiroderma trinitatum consists of a highly supported haplogroup of small Chiroderma from the cis-Andean Guiana Shield and Amazon basin. It occurs in sympatry with C. salvini and C. v. villosum (Table 6).

Notes

Published as part of Garbino, Guilherme S. T., Lim, Burton K. & Tavares, Valéria Da C., 2020, Systematics of big-eyed bats, genus Chiroderma Peters, 1860 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), pp. 1-93 in Zootaxa 4846 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4846.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4017497

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Goodwin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Phyllostomidae
Genus
Chiroderma
Species
trinitatum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chiroderma trinitatum Goodwin, 1958 sec. Garbino, Lim & Tavares, 2020

References

  • Goodwin, G. G. (1958) Three new bats from Trinidad. American Museum Novitates, 1877, 1 - 6.
  • Handley Jr., C. O. (1960) Descriptions of new bats from Panama. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 112, 459 - 479. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.112 - 3442.459
  • Thomas, O. (1891) Note on Chiroderma villosum with the description of a new species for the genus. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Series 2, 10, 881 - 883.
  • Barriga-Bonilla, E. (1965) Estudios mastozoologicos colombianos, I: Chiroptera. Caldasia, 9 (43), 241 - 268.
  • Jones Jr., J. K. & Carter, D. C. (1976) Annotated checklist, with keys to subfamilies and genera. In: Baker, R. J. & Jones Jr., J. K. (Eds.), Biology of the bats of the New World family Phyllostomatidae. Part I. Museum of Texas Tech University Special Publications 10. Museum of Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas, pp. 7 - 38.
  • Gardner, A. L. (2008 a) Genus Chiroderma W. Peters, 1860. In: Gardner, A. L. (Ed.), Mammals of South America: marsupials, xenarthrans, shrews, and bats. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 321 - 326.