First report of the Broad-toothed Tailless Bat, Anoura latidens Handley, 1984 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae), in Bolivia

Camilo A. Calderón-Acevedo, Nathan Muchhala

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Abstract

Anoura latidens  Handley, 1984 is a nectarivorous bat with a wide elevational and latitudinal distribution, from Venezuela and Guyana to southeastern Peru. We reviewed mammal collections of the genus  Anoura  Gray, 1838 and identified two individuals previously attributed to  A. caudifer  (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818) as  A. latidens  based on their premolar morphology and morphological measurements. In this note we report the first record of  A. latidens  in the Yungas forests of Bolivia, which extends its geographic range by 1,006 km southeast of its previous southernmost record in Peru.
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Keywords

  • Chijchipa
  • Glossophaginae
  • Nor Yungas
  • South America
  • nectarivorous bat
  • range extension

Disciplines

  • Biology

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