Morphology, genetics and echolocation calls of the genus Kerivoula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Kerivoulinae) in Thailand

Douangboubpha, Bounsavane; Bumrungsri, Sara; Satasook, Chutamas; Wanna, Warapond; Soisook, Pipat; Bates, Paul J. J.

doi:10.1515/mammalia-2014-0004

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“…However, Khan et al [ 169 ] recognised only a single form across Malaysia (Peninsular and Borneo) and suggested that the Bornean form is a result of chromosomal polymorphism. Douangboubpha et al [ 170 ] reported that specimens from Thailand referred as K . hardwickii can be divided into two morphotypes: “flat” skulls and “domed” skulls.…”

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“…Ellerman and Morrison-Scott [ 138 ] recognised four subspecies: hardwickii (type locality: Java), depressa (type locality: southern Burma = Myanmar), crypta (type locality: southern India), and malpasi (type locality: Sri Lanka) whereas Hill [ 171 ] recognised five, including engana (type locality: southwest of Sumatra). The names hardwickii and depressa were suggested for the specimens from Thailand with “domed” and “flat” skulls respectively, but further research is required to assign Linnaean names conclusively [ 170 ]. Whether the four BINs in our NJ tree ( Fig 6 ) represent the four subspecies remains to be determined.…”

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“…lenis . Douangboubpha et al [ 170 ] reported that specimens from Thailand referred as K . papillosa represent five morphological forms but only three distinct clusters based on COI mtDNA analyses.…”

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A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library

Lim¹,

Ramli²,

Bhassu³

et al. 2017

PLoS ONE

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Several published checklists of bat species have covered Peninsular Malaysia as part of a broader region and/or in combination with other mammal groups. Other researchers have produced comprehensive checklists for specific localities within the peninsula. To our knowledge, a comprehensive checklist of bats specifically for the entire geopolitical region of Peninsular Malaysia has never been published, yet knowing which species are present in Peninsular Malaysia and their distributions across the region are crucial in developing suitable conservation plans. Our literature search revealed that 110 bat species have been documented in Peninsular Malaysia; 105 species have precise locality records while five species lack recent and/ or precise locality records. We retrieved 18 species from records dated before the year 2000 and seven species have only ever been recorded once. Our search of Barcode of Life Datasystems (BOLD) found that 86 (of the 110) species have public records of which 48 species have public DNA barcodes available from bats sampled in Peninsular Malaysia. Based on Neighbour-Joining tree analyses and the allocation of DNA barcodes to Barcode Index Number system (BINs) by BOLD, several DNA barcodes recorded under the same species name are likely to represent distinct taxa. We discuss these cases in detail and highlight the importance of further surveys to determine the occurences and resolve the taxonomy of particular bat species in Peninsular Malaysia, with implications for conservation priorities.

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A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library

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Bhassu³

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“…Bats in the genus Kerivoula generally have relatively short, highpitched calls [18] covering a very large bandwidth, which further increases when they approach an object [19]. Such a call design is typical for the guild of narrow-space gleaning foragers [20] as it facilitates hunting in dense vegetation [19,20].…”

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Bats Are Acoustically Attracted to Mutualistic Carnivorous Plants

Schöner

Simon

et al. 2015

Current Biology

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Mutualisms between plants and animals shape the world's ecosystems. In such interactions, achieving contact with the partner species is imperative. Plants regularly advertise themselves with signals that specifically appeal to the partner's perceptual preferences. For example, many plants have acquired traits such as brightly colored, fragrant flowers that attract pollinators with visual, olfactory, or--in the case of a few bat-pollinated flowers--even acoustic stimuli in the form of echo-reflecting structures. However, acoustic attraction in plants is rare compared to other advertisements and has never been found outside the pollination context and only in the Neotropics. We hypothesized that this phenomenon is more widespread and more diverse as plant-bat interactions also occur in the Paleotropics. In Borneo, mutualistic bats fertilize a carnivorous pitcher plant while roosting in its pitchers. The pitcher's orifice features a prolonged concave structure, which we predicted to distinctively reflect the bats' echolocation calls for a wide range of angles. This structure should facilitate the location and identification of pitchers even within highly cluttered surroundings. Pitchers lacking this structure should be less attractive for the bats. Ensonifications of the pitchers around their orifice revealed that this structure indeed acts as a multidirectional ultrasound reflector. In behavioral experiments where bats were confronted with differently modified pitchers, the reflector's presence clearly facilitated the finding and identification of pitchers. These results suggest that plants have convergently acquired reflectors in the Paleotropics and the Neotropics to acoustically attract bats, albeit for completely different ecological reasons.

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“…Additionally, we included several species that occur near the Philippines, including K. titania, K. intermedia, and K. minuta. We did not include several members of the K. hardwickii group, a complex that requires much detailed study (e.g., K. depressa, K. krauensis, K. furva or K. kachinensis; see Bates et al 2007;Francis et al 2007;Khan et al 2010;Douangboubpha et al 2015;Son et al, et al 2015;Struebig et al 2016;Kuo et al 2017;Tu et al 2018).…”

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Philippine bats of the genus Kerivoula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae): Overview and assessment of variation in K. pellucida and K. whiteheadi

Sedlock

Heaney

Balete

et al. 2020

Zootaxa

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Bats of the genus Kerivoula (Mammalia, Chiroptera) are widespread in the Philippines with four reported species, but have been poorly known due to a paucity of specimens. We provide the first molecular phylogeny for Philippine Kerivoula, which supports the existence of four distinct clades that we treat as species (K. hardwickii, K. papillosa, K. pellucida, and K. whiteheadi); these four overlap broadly geographically. Each of these may be recognized on the basis of cytochrome b sequences and external and craniodental morphology. Detailed examination of K. pellucida shows little geographic differentiation within the Philippines, but they differ subtly from those on the Sunda Shelf. We consider K. whiteheadi to be composed of four recognizable clades, each restricted to a geographic region within the Philippines. We consider K. bicolor, from peninsular Thailand, and K. pusilla, from Borneo, to be distinct from K. whiteheadi. Our data indicate the presence of two species within the Philippines currently lumped as K. hardwickii; further study of these is needed. A calibrated phylogeny suggests that Kerivoula began arriving in the Philippines about 10 MYA, with each of the four current lineages arriving independently.

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Morphology, genetics and echolocation calls of the genus Kerivoula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Kerivoulinae) in Thailand

Abstract: Following extensive field work in Thailand

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library

A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library

Bats Are Acoustically Attracted to Mutualistic Carnivorous Plants

Philippine bats of the genus Kerivoula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae): Overview and assessment of variation in K. pellucida and K. whiteheadi

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