The bat fauna (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Carlos Botelho State Park, Atlantic Forest of Southeastern Brazil, including new distribution records for the state of São Paulo
Author
Cláudio, Vinícius C.
Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de São Carlos. 13565 - 905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil. & Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo. 04301 - 905 São Paulo, SP, Brazil. & Instituto de Biologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal do
Author
Barbosa, Gedimar P.
Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de São Carlos. 13565 - 905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil. & Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo. 04301 - 905 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Author
Rocha, Vlamir J.
Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade Federal de São Carlos. 13600 - 970 Araras, SP, Brazil.
Author
Rassy, Ricardo Moratelli Fabrício B.
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Zoologia
2020
e 36514
2020-09-17
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e36514
journal article
10.3897/zoologia.37.e36514
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Micronycteris microtis
Miller, 1898
Fig. 5
Taxonomy. Eight species of
Micronycteris
Gray, 1866
, occur in
Brazil
(
Nogueira et al. 2014
). They are divided in two groups: the “pale venter”species, which includes
M. brosseti
Simmons & Voss, 1998
,
M. homezorum
Pirlot, 1967
,
M. minuta
(Gervais, 1856)
,
M. sanborni
Simmons, 1966
, and
M. schmidtorum
; and the “dark venter” species, including
M. hirsuta
(W. Peters, 1869)
,
M. megalotis
Gray, 1842
, and
M. microtis
Miller, 1898
. These groups can also be separated by the interauricular band height – high in most species of the “pale venter” group, and low in the “dark venter” group (
Simmons et al. 2002
). Specimens from PECB with ventral fur light brown (dark venter), similar to the dorsum in coloration, and low interauricular band, were identified as
M. microtis
(ZSP 011, 028; see
Table 3
for measurements). The forearm length in this species is shorter than
35 mm
, differing from
M. hirsuta
(forearm larger than
41 mm
–
Simmons et al. 2002
,
Williams and Genoways 2008
,
Díaz et al. 2016
).
Micronycteris microtis
is distinguished from
M. megalotis
by the length of the ears (<
21 mm
in
M. microtis
, and>
18.5 mm
in
M. megalotis
); the length of the fur on lower third of marginal surface of pinna (<
3.9 mm
in
M. microtis
, and>
4.1 mm
in
M. megalotis
); and the length of dorsal fur over the upper back (<
11.3 mm
in
M. microtis
, and>
9.1 mm
in
M. megalotis
–
Simmons and Voss 1998
,
Williams and Genoways 2008
,
Moras et al. 2015
). Specimens from PECB have brownish pelage, with the dorsal fur bicolored, and a light brown basal band and mid brown distal band; ventral fur coloration is weakly bicolored, similar to the dorsal pelage. The measurements of specimens from PECB were all within the range of
M. microtis
: length of ears averaging
21.5 mm
; length of the fur on pinna
3 mm
; length of dorsal fur averaging
11 mm
; and low interauricular band, with a shallow notch.
Distribution. In
Brazil
the species is recorded in Amazon, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest biomes, in the states of Amazonas,
Pará
,
Amapá
,
Rondônia
,
Bahia
,
Rio de Janeiro
,
Espírito Santo
,
Minas Gerais
,
São Paulo
and
Mato Grosso
(
Tavares et al. 2008
,
Reis et al. 2017
). In
São Paulo
, the species is known only from four localities (
Garbino 2016
).
Field observations. We captured
one adult
male and
one adult
female of
M. microtis
, which were both taken in ground-level mist-nets in sampling sites M3 and M16 (Appendix 1). Captures occurred in October and February.