Published December 31, 1998 | Version v1

Chiroderma trinitatum Goodwin

  • 1. Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA

Description

Chiroderma trinitatum Goodwin

VOUCHER MATERIAL: 8 females (AMNH *266255, *267189, *267473, *268531, *269117; MNHN *1995.1191, *1995.1192, *1995.1193) and 4 males (AMNH *266256, *268532, *269118; MNHN *1995.1194); see table 42 for measurements.

IDENTIFICATION: Descriptions and measurements of Chiroderma trinitatum from the Guianas and elsewhere can be found in Goodwin (1958), Goodwin and Greenhall (1961), Ojasti and Linares (1971), Gardner (1976), Genoways and Williams (1979), Swanepoel and Genoways (1979), and Brosset and Charles­Dominique (1990). Although subspecies of C. trinitatum have been recognized by some authors (e.g., Jones and Carter, 1976), increased sampling throughout the range of this species has demonstrated more within­population variation than previously suspected (see discussion in Williams and Genoways, 1980a). Pending a thorough systematic review, no trinomial nomenclature seems warranted (Koopman, 1994).

Our Paracou specimens conform in all respects to previous qualitative and morphometric descriptions of Chiroderma trinitatum.

FIELD OBSERVATIONS: We caught 13 Chiroderma trinitatum at Paracou, of which 11 were taken in ground­level mistnets and 2 in elevated mistnets. Four of the ground­level captures were made in swampy primary forest and the other seven in manmade clearings. The elevated mistnet captures were made at 17–20 m above a narrow dirt road.

Notes

Published as part of Simmons, Nancy B. & Voss, Robert S., 1998, The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana, a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1, Bats, pp. 1-219 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 237 on page 115, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4545052

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Phyllostomidae
Genus
Chiroderma
Species
trinitatum
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Goodwin, G. G., and A. M. Greenhall 1961. A review of the bats of Trinidad and Tobago: descriptions, rabies infection, and ecology. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 122: 191 - 301.
  • Ojasti, J., and O. J. Linares 1971. Adiciones a la fauna de murcielagos de Venezuela con notas sobre las especies del genero Diclidurus (Chiroptera). Acta Biol. Venez. 7: 421 - 441.
  • Genoways, H. H., and S. L. Williams 1979. Records of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Suriname. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 48: 323 - 335.
  • Brosset, A., and P. Charles-Dominique 1990. The bats from French Guiana: a taxonomic, faunistic and ecological approach. Mammalia 54: 509 - 559.
  • Jones, J. K., Jr., and D. C. Carter 1976. Annotated checklist with keys to subfamilies and genera. In R. J. Baker, J. K. Jones, Jr., and D. C. Carter (eds.), Biology of bats of the New World family Phyllostomidae, pt. 1: 7 - 38. Spec. Publ. Mus. Texas Tech Univ. 10.
  • Williams, S. L., and H. H. Genoways 1980 a. Results of the Alcoa Foundation-Suriname Expeditions. II. Additional records of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Suriname. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 49: 213 - 236.