Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats
Author
Velazco, Paúl M.
Author
Voss, Robert S.
Author
Fleck, David W.
Author
Simmons, Nancy B.
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2021
2021-08-27
2021
451
1
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Genus
Micronycteris
Gray, 1866
The genus
Micronycteris
(sensu stricto; Simmons and Voss, 1998) includes 13 species distinguished from members of other phyllostomid genera by having large, rounded ears connected by a transverse band of skin across the crown of the head, bicolored dorsal fur, unicolored ventral fur, two dermal pads with smoothly rounded lateral margins on the chin, and outer upper incisor and canine always in contact (Simmons, 1996; Williams and Genoways, 2008; Siles et al., 2013; López-Baucells et al., 2018; Siles and Baker, 2020). The taxonomy and systematics of
Micronycteris
has been reviewed by Andersen (1906a), Sanborn (1949a), Simmons (1996), Simmons and Voss (1998), Fonseca et al. (2007), Porter et al. (2007), Larsen et al. (2011), Siles et al. (2013), and Siles and Baker (2020). In their recent revision, Siles and Baker (2020) recognized two dark-bellied subgenera (
Micronycteris
and
Xenoctenes
) and two pale-bellied subgenera (
Leuconycteris
and
Schizonycteris
). We recorded all six species of the genus
Micronycteris
that are expected to occur in the Yavarí-
Ucayali
interfluve, including members of all four subgenera. Five species occur sympatrically at Nuevo
San Juan
(
M. hirsuta
,
M. matses
,
M. megalotis
,
M. microtis
, and
M. minuta
).