Checklist of bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from Tocantins and Bahia, Brazil: a gradient from Cerrado, Caatinga and Atlantic Forest

Abstract

Abstract:Herein we present a list of bat species in a gradient of physiognomies, from the Cerrado to the Caatinga and to the Atlantic Forest, between Tocantins and Bahia, two of the most poorly bat-sampled regions in Brazil. A total of 30 species (26 for Bahia and 13 for Tocantins), were recorded. We report, for the first time, two species of bats from Tocantins: Anoura geoffroyi (Phyllostomidae) and Cynomops planirostris (Molossidae). Our study increases to 41 the number of bat species for the Caatinga of Bahia, including two new formal reports for this region (Artibeus fimbriatus and Molossus rufus).

Bat assemblage in a karstic area from northern Brazil: seven new occurrences for Tocantins state, including the first record of Glyphonycteris sylvestris Thomas, 1896 for the Cerrado

“…This study recorded seven new occurrences of species for Tocantins state, increasing the state's species diversity to 60 Reis et al 2013;Novaes et al 2014;Lapenta and Bueno 2015). Other than G. sylvestris, occurrences of six widely distributed species in the Brazilian Cerrado were expected in Tocantins and required only formalization with voucher deposits.…”

First record of Cynomops planirostris (Peters, 1865) (Chiroptera, Molossidae) from Maranhão state, Brazil, based on morphological and molecular data

“…In Brazil, the species has been recorded in the following states (Reis et al, 2013;Santos et al, 2015): Espírito Santo (Ruschi, 1951), Mato Grosso (Pine et al, 1970), São Paulo (Vizotto and Taddei, 1976), Pernambuco (Mares et al, 1981), Distrito Federal (Sá, 1998), Mato Grosso do Sul (Pulchério-Leite et al, 1998), Minas Gerais (Pedro and Taddei 1998), Goiás (Rodrigues et al, 2002), Paraná (Miretzki, 2003), Bahia (Faria et al, 2006), Ceará (Fabián, 2008), Sergipe (Rocha et al, 2010), Paraíba (Feijó and Langguth, 2011), Piauí (Novaes et al, 2013), Amapá (Silva et al, 2013), Roraima (Capaverde-Junior et al, 2014), and Tocantins (Lapenta and Bueno, 2015).…”

First record of Molossus pretiosus Miller, 1902 (Chiroptera, Molossidae) for the Cerrado of Bahia, northeastern Brazil

“…Nevertheless, the available information on the occurrence and distribution of bat species in the country are heterogeneous and fragmented, without any record of species in about 60% of the Brazilian territory, and only 8% of the territory minimally surveyed for bats (Bernard et al 2011b). Although there are records of bats in 41% of the Cerrado biome, the western region of Bahia state is poorly surveyed (Lapenta and Bueno 2015).…”