Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats
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Velazco, Paúl M.
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Voss, Robert S.
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Fleck, David W.
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Simmons, Nancy B.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2021
2021-08-27
2021
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Hsunycteris dashe
Velazco et al., 2017
Figure 12A
VOUCHER MATERIAL (TOTAL = 3): Nuevo
San Juan
(AMNH 273165; MUSM 15206, 15211); see table 24 for measurements.
UNVOUCHERED OBSERVATIONS: None.
IDENTIFICATION:
Hsunycteris dashe
was recently described from the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluve and is not currently known to occur elsewhere. It can be distinguished from other members of the genus by its large size (forearm
35–36 mm
); long (≥
9 mm
), bicolored dorsal fur; noseleaf with a central rib that is weakly defined but extends all the way from the upper lip to the apex; chin with dermal papillae arranged in a V and separated by a wide basal cleft; broad rostrum; infraorbital foramen with a lateral margin that does not project beyond the rostral outline in dorsal view; large outer upper incisors that are only slightly smaller than the inner upper incisors; third upper premolar with a weakly developed lingual cusp; and well-developed, labially oriented M1 parastyle (fig. 12A; Velazco et al., 2017).
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No subspecies are currently recognized.
REMARKS:
All
our specimens of
Hsunycteris dashe
were collected from two roosts near
Nuevo
San Juan
, both of them beneath the undercut banks of small streams in upland primary forest.
The
first roost, encountered on
2 September 1999
, contained a single adult female
; the second, encountered on
21 October 1999
, contained
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Note that Velazco et al. (2017: 3) incorrectly defined P5 as the “2nd upper premolar.” In fact, P5 is the posteriormost of the three teeth in this series.
FIG. 12. Anterior views of the chins of
Hsunycteris dashe
(
A
, AMNH 273165) and
H. pattoni
(
B
, MUSM 13205) illustrating taxonomic differences in the arrangement of the dermal papillae. In
H. dashe
the chin exhibits several small dermal papillae arranged in a “V” and separated by a wide basal cleft. In
H. pattoni
, however, the dermal papillae on the chin are larger and are not separated by a basal cleft.
three individuals, of which
one adult
female and her nursing young were collected.