Phyllostomidae Gray, 1825

Velazco, Paúl M., Voss, Robert S., Fleck, David W. & Simmons, Nancy B., 2021, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021 (451), pp. 1-201 : 31

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scientific name

Phyllostomidae Gray, 1825
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Family Phyllostomidae Gray, 1825 View in CoL

Phyllostomidae , an ecologically diverse clade endemic to the Americas, includes omnivorous species as well as species variously specialized for insectivory, carnivory, nectarivory and pollenivory, frugivory, and sanguivory (Simmons and Voss, 1998; Wetterer et al., 2000). Phyllostomids are characterized by having a fleshy noseleaf, a well-developed tragus, a humerus with a well-developed trochiter and a double articulation with the scapula, digit II of the wing with a well-developed metacarpal and a small phalanx, digit III with three complete ossified phalanges, a fibula that is cartilaginous proximally, a friction lock on the digits of the feet, and oviductal folds limited to the extramural oviduct (Simmons and Voss, 1998; Gardner, 2008b; Cirranello et al., 2016). Gardner (2008c) and López-Baucells et al. (2018) provided keys to the genera and species of South American and Amazonian phyllostomids, respectively, based on external and craniodental characters. Sixty-six species in 32 genera are known from the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluve. Published records from localities adjacent to the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluve include another five phyllostomid species that might also occur in our study area (appendix 2).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Phyllostomidae

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