First Records of Bats of the Genus Brachyphylla from the Caicos Islands, with Notes on Geographic Variation

Buden, Donald W.

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“…Jones and Carter (1976) and Silva-Taboada (1976, 1979 recognized two species, B. caz'ernarum and B. nana, with minor as a subspecies of the former and pumila of the latter. Buden (1977), studying geographic variation in Greater Antillean populations, agreed with Varona's (1974) arrangement. Swanepoel and Genoways (1978), in a revision of the genus, showed it to consist of two species, 5. cavernarum and B. nana.…”

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Brachyphylla cavernarum

Swanepoel

Genoways

1983

Mammalian Species

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Brachyphylla cavernarum

Swanepoel

Genoways

1983

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“…Jones and Carter (1976) and Silva-Taboada (1976) recognized two species, cavernarum and nana , with minor as a subspecies of the former and pumila of the latter. Buden (1977) studying geographic variation in Greater Antillean populations agreed with Varona's (1974) arrangement.…”

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“…B. cavernarum and/?, nana do share the streblid genus Trichobius, but host different species. Buden (1977), considering these two species to be conspecific, argued that the size differences between the two allopatric taxa are nearly matched by those found among Middle American populations of Artiheus jamaicensis , which were treated as subspecies by Davis (1970). However, these differences are in fact more comparable to size differences seen between A. Jamaicensis and A. iituratus in Central America.…”

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“…the bases of the hair, which vary from whitish to reddish and yellowish white. Some authors (Goodwin, 1933;Sanborn, 1941;Buden, 1977) believed that variation in color in Bnichyphylla followed a geographic pattern. Basically, they felt that the underfur of specimens from Hispaniola was more distinctly white than in specimens from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Lesser Antilles.…”

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“…The systematics of Brachyphylla remained virtually unstudied except for description of species until Koopman's work in 1968. Since that time, four additional papers have appeared dealing with this subject (Varona, 1974;Jones and Carter, 1976;Silva-Taboada, 1976;Buden, 1977). These authors have not agreed as to how many species to recognize in the genus nor have they examined in detail variation throughout the geographic range of the genus.…”

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Revision of the Antillean bats of the genus Brachyphylla (Mammalia: Phyllostomatidae)

Swanepoel¹,

Genoways²

1978

Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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Nongeographic and geographic variation have been analyzed in the genus Brachyphylla , which belongs to the Antillean endemic subfamily Phyllonycterinae of the family Phyllostomatidae. Males were found to be generally larger than females; therefore, the sexes were analyzed separately for geographic variation. External measurements except length of forearm were found to display a high degree of individual variation. They were not used in subsequent analyses. Of cranial measurements, greatest length of skull and condylobasal length showed the least individual variation, whereas palatal length, postorbital breadth (in samples from west of the Mona Passage only), and rostral width at canines showed relatively high coefficients of variation. Variation in color was found not to follow any geographic pattern.Two species -Brachyphylla cavernanim and B. nana -were recognized in the genus. B. cavernanim occurs on Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Lesser Antilles as far south as St. Vincent. Three subspecies are recognized. Populations of large bats occur on St. Croix in the Virgin Islands and the Lesser Antilles as far south as St. Vincent. The smallest individuals occur only on the island of Barbados. Populations of bats of intermediate size, described herein as a new subspecies, occur on Puerto Rico and most of the Virgin Islands. Brachyphylla nana is a monotypic species occurring on Cuba, Isle of Pines, Grand Cayman, Middle Caicos, and Hispaniola and as a sub-Recent fossil on Jamaica.

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Mammals of the Cayman Islands

Morgan¹

1994

The Cayman Islands

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First Records of Bats of the Genus Brachyphylla from the Caicos Islands, with Notes on Geographic Variation

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Brachyphylla cavernarum

Brachyphylla cavernarum

Revision of the Antillean bats of the genus Brachyphylla (Mammalia: Phyllostomatidae)

Mammals of the Cayman Islands

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