First Record of the Striped Yellow-Eared Bat,<i>Vampyriscus nymphaea</i>, (Stenodermatinae, Phyllostomidae) in Honduras.

Mora, José Manuel; Marineros, Leonel; López, Lucía I.

doi:10.18475/cjos.v48i1.a7

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“…Vampyriscus nymphaea (Thomas, 1909). Mora et al (2014) confirmed the presence of this species, based on a pregnant female (EAPZ 72) from the Coco River in Nueva Esperanza, in the Patuca National Park, in the department of Olancho (north-eastern Honduras).…”

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A systematic revision of the bats (Chiroptera) of Honduras: an updated checklist with corroboration of historical specimens and new records

Turcios-Casco¹,

Ávila-Palma²,

LaVal³

et al. 2020

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During the last century, survey efforts for mammals in Honduras have been few and most distributional and conservation assessments of bats have been based on historical records. Taxonomy of many records has changed. Moreover, a number of supposed Honduran occurrences are based on records from bordering countries without confirmation by a Honduran voucher. Therefore, the list of bats of Honduras lacks precision. Here, we update the number of species in the country, including taxonomic changes not reflected in recent works and new records based on museum specimens. The known number of species for Honduras is 113 with seven expected (Cormura brevirostris, Lampronycteris brachyotis, Mesophylla macconnelli, Molossus coibensis, M. pretiosus, Thyroptera discifera and Trinycteris nicefori), based on records in adjoining countries. We provide a new record for Honduras of Natalus lanatus. We confirm the presence of Cynomops greenhalli and Diaemus youngii and clarify the taxonomic status of Artibeus intermedius, Chiroderma gorgasi, Eumops ferox, Gardnerycteris keenani, Lasiurus frantzii, Myotis pilosatibialis, Molossus and Pteronotus species, and Tonatia bakeri. We recommend a reassessment of the conservation status of the bats of Honduras considering recent changes and that a number of species (e.g. Choeronycteris mexicana) have not been observed since their reports in historical records. This requires an update of the taxonomic identification keys for Honduras. The updated checklist below demonstrates the high biodiversity of Honduran bats but is also an example of how poorly many groups have been studied since they were first recorded in the country.

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A systematic revision of the bats (Chiroptera) of Honduras: an updated checklist with corroboration of historical specimens and new records

Turcios-Casco¹,

Ávila-Palma²,

LaVal³

et al. 2020

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“…Recently, the Central America strategy for bat conservation listed 109 species for Honduras (Rodríguez y Sánchez 2015). However this list did not include Vampyriscus nymphaea recently reported for Honduras (Mora et al 2014). The list has some other omissions such as Lasiurus cinereus reported recently for Honduras (Mora y López 2010) and Nicaragua (Medina-Fitoria et al 2015) but not included in the list of this last country; curiously it is mentioned in the Nicaraguan chapter of the same volume .…”

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Noteworthy Record of Eptesicus brasiliensis (Vespertilionidae) in Honduras

Espinal

Mora

2016

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Although the Brazilian brown bat (Eptesicus brasiliensis) has been included in some Honduras bat lists, there is not an official record or a scientific publication supporting it. Here we confirm the presence of the Brazilian brown bat in Honduras. We mist-netted a female Brazilian brown bat in Choluteca, southern Honduras. The individual was captured over a path near a riparian corridor in a coffee plantation. We also include the spectrogram of the species call recorded at the same locality. The Honduras bat list achieves now 108 species although there is a debate about the real number of species in the country.

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“…Currently, 113 bat species has been reported for Honduras (Turcios-Casco et al 2020b;Mora et al 2021), new records which include: Lasiurus cinereus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1796), Lasiurus egregius (Peters, 1870), Neoeptesicus brasiliensis (Desmarest, 1819), Balantiopteryx io Thomas, 1904, Vampyriscus nymphaeus (Thomas, 1909, Nyctinomops aurispinosus (Peale, 1848), N. macrotis (Gray, 1840), Hylonycteris underwoodi Thomas, 1903, Chiroderma gorgasi Handley, 1960, Diaemus youngii (Jentink 1893, Natalus lanatus Tejedor, 2005, Cynomops mexicanus (Jones and Genoways 1967) and Centronycteris centralis Thomas, 1912 (Espinal and Mora 2012;Mora 2012;Divoll and Buck 2013;Mora et al 2014;Espinal et al 2016Espinal et al , 2021Mora et al 2016;Turcios-Casco and Medina-Fitoria 2019;Turcios-Casco et al 2020a, b). One of the major issues with Honduran bat studies is that there are several historically-preserved specimens that have not been verified yet.…”

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Back to the future: A preserved specimen validates the presence of Molossus pretiosus (Molossidae, Chiroptera) in Honduras

Turcios-Casco,

Cardoso Cláudio,

Lee Jr

2024

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Molossus pretiosus is a molossid bat that has been thought to exist in Honduras. While some authors have suggested its range extends all the way to Mexico, others have placed its northernmost distribution in Nicaragua. We present evidence, based on one specimen collected in 2005, confirming the presence of this species in the Caribbean of Honduras within the Islas de la Bahía department. This discovery increases the count of known species within this family to 18 in the country and raises the total bat species count for Honduras to 114. We recommend a detailed study of historical specimens to confirm the identification of species that may have been misidentified as well as a thorough examination of molossids distributed in northern Honduras.

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First Record of the Striped Yellow-Eared Bat,Vampyriscus nymphaea, (Stenodermatinae, Phyllostomidae) in Honduras.

Cited by 6 publications

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A systematic revision of the bats (Chiroptera) of Honduras: an updated checklist with corroboration of historical specimens and new records

A systematic revision of the bats (Chiroptera) of Honduras: an updated checklist with corroboration of historical specimens and new records

Noteworthy Record of Eptesicus brasiliensis (Vespertilionidae) in Honduras

Back to the future: A preserved specimen validates the presence of Molossus pretiosus (Molossidae, Chiroptera) in Honduras

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