Update on the distribution of Diphylla ecaudata Spix, 1823 (Mammalia, Chiroptera): new records from the Brazilian northeast

Abstract

Abstract:The subfamily Desmodontinae encompasses the only mammals known to feed exclusively on the blood of other vertebrates. This study provides records of the desmodontine bat Diphylla ecaudata from a major gap in its known distribution in northeastern Brazil. Specimens were captured at five localities, all associated with caves. Two of these sites are located in the state of Sergipe, two in Bahia, and one in Ceará. The record of D. ecaudata from Ceará is the first for this state.

Rapid surveys as a key tool for the inventory of the bat fauna of Brazil: New records for the coastal restinga

“…With the new records presented here, the total number of bat species known to occur in the restinga has increased to 41, and the number of genera to 28 genera (including Saccopteryx and Molossops). The records of Molossops temminckii and Eptesicus brasiliensis also increase the number of bat species known to occur in the state of Sergipe to 50 (Mikalauskas, 2005;Mikalauskas et al, 2006Mikalauskas et al, , 2011Mikalauskas et al, , 2014Ástua and Guerra, 2008;Feijó and Nunes, 2010;Rocha et al, 2010Rocha et al, , 2014aRocha et al, , 2014bRocha et al, , 2013Rocha et al, , 2015Donato et al, 2012;Brito and Bocchiglieri, 2012;Bocchiglieri et al, 2016;Souza et al, 2016;Bomfim et al, 2017).…”

Diphylla ecaudata(Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

“…In Mexico, it can be found from southern Tamaulipas (Elizalde-Arellano et al 2007; Ceballos and Arroyo 2012) and San Luis Potosí (Wilson et al 1985), southward through part of Guanajuato (Magaña-Cota et al 2010), Puebla (Vargas-Miranda et al 2008), Veracruz (Martínez-Gallardo and Sánchez-Cordero 1997; Coates et al 2017), Oaxaca (Briones-Salas et al 2015), Chiapas (Horvath et al 2001; Cruz-Lara et al 2004; Escobedo et al 2005; Lorenzo et al 2017), Yucatán (Arita 1997), and Quintana Roo (Pozo de la and Escobedo 1999). It is distributed continuously throughout Central America in Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (Dalquest and Hall 1947; Jones 1966; McCarthy 1987; Sampaio et al 2016), and into South America, with records in Venezuela (Ojasti and Linares 1971; Handley 1976), Colombia (Aellen 1970; Castro 2016; Echavarría et al 2017), Ecuador (Albuja, 1983), Bolivia (Siles et al 2003), Perú (Tuttle 1970; Graham and Barkley 1984; Hutterer et al 1995; Solari et al 2001; Quintana and Pacheco 2007), and Brazil, where there are reports of its presence in 20 states, including the Amazon State and the Federal District (Esbérard et al 2005; Faria et al 2006; Feijó and Langguth 2011; Rocha et al 2014; Santos and Lopes 2015; see ). It occurs from sea level up to about 1,900 m (Sampaio et al 2016).…”

“…Geographic distribution of Diphylla ecaudata . Small dots (red) correspond to the geographic range based on 594 records of preserved and georeferenced specimens obtained between 1869 and 2021 from Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF.org 2021) plus the records published by Rocha et al (2014). The three large dots (green) correspond to the fossil records.…”