A New Species of the<i>Hipposideros pratti</i>Group (Chiroptera, Hipposideridae) from Lao PDR and Vietnam

Robinson, Mark; Jenkins, Paulina D.; Francis, Charles M.; Fulford, Anthony J. C.

doi:10.3161/001.005.0103

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“…Kim Hy Nature Reserve is by no means unique in this regard, as preliminary studies at other forested karst sites in Vietnam have demonstrated similarly high species richness (e.g. Cuc Phuong with 38 species, Phong Nha Ke Bang with 36 species) (Hendrichsen et al 2001;Borissenko and Kruskop 2003;Robinson et al 2003). Our results emphasize the importance of undertaking field surveys during both the dry and wet season and employing harp traps and mist nets to maximise inventory completeness.…”

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confidence: 53%

“…Vietnam supports high bat diversity with at least 104 species (Corbet and Hill 1992;Hendrichsen et al 2001;Borissenko and Kruskop 2003;Lunde et al 2003;Robinson et al 2003;Kruskop et al 2006;Thong et al 2006;Bates et al 2007;Csorba et al 2007;Furey et al 2009), representing over a third of the national mammal fauna (Can et al 2008). Although species inventories are lacking for Southeast Asian karsts, formations across the region support extensive cave networks, which provide roosting sites for large aggregations and substantial numbers of bat species (Vermeulen and Whitten 1999;Mickeburgh et al 2002).…”

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confidence: 97%

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Bat diversity in Vietnamese limestone karst areas and the implications of forest degradation

2010

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Limestone karst ecosystems in Southeast Asia and Vietnam are important reservoirs for biodiversity and are currently experiencing habitat loss and degradation due to land use changes and increasing pressure from extractive and tourism industries. Recent reviews indicate that their biodiversity is poorly known and raise doubts about the extent to which karst can maintain its biodiversity in the face of ongoing degradation. We investigated this issue by examining the effects of forest degradation on bat species diversity, composition and abundance. Using mist nets and harp traps, we sampled bat assemblages in karst forests of differing integrity for a total of 240 net nights and 180 harp trap nights, capturing 694 bats representing 36 species and five families. Our results confirm that primary forests in Vietnamese karst are exceptionally important for bat diversity, supporting substantial proportions of the national fauna. Disturbed and heavily degraded karst forests also appear capable of supporting relatively high numbers of bat species at low abundances, but their ability to do so in the longer term is in doubt and requires further research. Our findings of bats in relict forests on karst hillsides and ridgetops provide justification for their protection and raise the possibility that these may provide corridors for the movement of forest-dwelling bats within anthropogenic landscapes. Since the majority of Vietnamese karst landscapes remain unprotected however, the future of their biodiversity remains uncertain.

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Bat diversity in Vietnamese limestone karst areas and the implications of forest degradation

2010

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“…Although new species of hipposiderids are regularly discovered and described in Asia (Robinson et al 2003;Guillen-Servent and Francis 2006;Bates et al 2007;Douangboubpha et al 2011;Thong et al 2012;Murray et al 2018), the pace of discovery has been much slower in Africa. Only one extant species has been described since the recognition of Hipposideros lamottei (Brosset 1985(Brosset ["1984), and that one was from Madagascar .…”

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Evolutionary relationships and population genetics of the Afrotropical leaf-nosed bats (Chiroptera, Hipposideridae)

Patterson¹,

Webala²,

Lavery³

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The Old World leaf-nosed bats (Hipposideridae) are aerial and gleaning insectivores that occur throughout the Paleotropics. Both their taxonomic and phylogenetic histories are confused. Until recently, the family included genera now allocated to the Rhinonycteridae and was recognized as a subfamily of Rhinolophidae. Evidence that Hipposideridae diverged from both Rhinolophidae and Rhinonycteridae in the Eocene confirmed their family rank, but their intrafamilial relationships remain poorly resolved. We examined genetic variation in the Afrotropical hipposiderids Doryrhina, Hipposideros, and Macronycteris using relatively dense taxon-sampling throughout East Africa and neighboring regions. Variation in both mitochondrial (cyt-b) and four nuclear intron sequences (ACOX2, COPS, ROGDI, STAT5) were analyzed using both maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference methods. We used intron sequences and the lineage delimitation method BPP-a multilocus, multi-species coalescent approach-on supported mitochondrial clades to identify those acting as independent evolutionary lineages. The program StarBEAST was used on the intron sequences to produce a species tree of the sampled Afrotropical hipposiderids. All genetic analyses strongly support generic monophyly, with Doryrhina and Macronycteris as Afrotropical sister genera distinct from a Paleotropical Hipposideros; mitochondrial analyses interpose the genera Aselliscus, Coelops, and Asellia between these clades. Mitochondrial analyses also suggest at least two separate A peer-reviewed open-access journal B. D. Patterson et al. / ZooKeys 929: 117-161 (2020) 118 colonizations of Africa by Asian groups of Hipposideros, but the actual number and direction of faunal interchanges will hinge on placement of the unsampled African-Arabian species H. megalotis. Mitochondrial sequences further identify a large number of geographically structured clades within species of all three genera. However, in sharp contrast to this pattern, the four nuclear introns fail to distinguish many of these groups and their geographic structuring disappears. Various distinctive mitochondrial clades are consolidated in the intron-based gene trees and delimitation analyses, calling into question their evolutionary independence or else indicating their very recent divergence. At the same time, there is now compelling genetic evidence in both mitochondrial and nuclear sequences for several additional unnamed species among the Afrotropical Hipposideros. Conflicting appraisals of differentiation among the Afrotropical hipposiderids based on mitochondrial and nuclear loci must be adjudicated by large-scale integrative analyses of echolocation calls, quantitative morphology, and geometric morphometrics. Integrative analyses will also help to resolve the challenging taxonomic issues posed by the diversification of the many lineages associated with H. caffer and H. ruber.

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“…In Lao "tam" refers to a cave and "ban" to village. More information and a location map can be found for Xe Piane NBCA in Robinson (1998) and for Khammouan Limestone NBCA in Jenkins & Robinson (2002), Robinson & Webber (2000) and Robinson et al (2003).…”

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Muridae (Rodentia) from the Khammouan Limestone and Xe Piane National Biodiversity Conservation Areas, Lao PDR

Smith¹,

Robinson²,

Webber³

2004

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This note details the murid specimens collected in 1997, 1998 and 1999 as the result of surveys of 3 sites in Xe Piane and of 11 sites in Khammouan Limestone NBCA, Lao PDR. Cranial and mandibular remains were obtained from raptor pellets collected from caves, hunters and carnivore droppings. Remains of 287 individuals of 13 species of Muridae were identified; three species from Xe Piane NBCA and 13 species from Khammouan Limestone NBCA. Two species Mus shortridgei and Rattus argentiventer had not previously been recorded from Lao PDR. Remains attributable to two additional genera were also found.

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A New Species of theHipposideros prattiGroup (Chiroptera, Hipposideridae) from Lao PDR and Vietnam

Cited by 21 publications

References 9 publications

Bat diversity in Vietnamese limestone karst areas and the implications of forest degradation

Bat diversity in Vietnamese limestone karst areas and the implications of forest degradation

Evolutionary relationships and population genetics of the Afrotropical leaf-nosed bats (Chiroptera, Hipposideridae)

Muridae (Rodentia) from the Khammouan Limestone and Xe Piane National Biodiversity Conservation Areas, Lao PDR

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