Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 124 1967 Number 3634 



BREDIN-ARCHBOLD-SMITHSONIAN 

 BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DOMINICA 1 



6. Synopsis of Bats of the Antillean Genus Ardops 



By J. Knox Jones, Jr., and Albert Schwartz 



The stenodermine bat genus Ardops, endemic to the Lesser Antilles, 

 was named and described by Miller (1906, p. 84), based on Stenoderma 

 nichollsi Thomas (type-species) from Dominica, S. montserratensis 

 Thomas from Montserrat, and &. luciae Miller from St. Lucia. Sub- 

 sequently, Miller (1913, p. 33) named a fourth species, Ardops 

 annectens, from Guadeloupe. The four named taxa, of which a total 

 of 15 specimens have been reported in the literature, have stood 

 until now as distinct species. Recently acquired material, collected 

 primarily under the aegis of the Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian 

 Biological Survey of Dominica, has made possible a meaningful 

 reassessment of variation in the genus and has resulted in the system- 

 atic arrangement herein proposed. 



Ardops is related to three other endemic Antillean genera, Ariteus 

 of Jamaica, Phyllops of Cuba and Hispaniola, and Stenoderma of 



1 See list at end of paper. 



2 Jones: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66044; 

 Schwartz: Department of Biology, Miami-Dade Junior College, Miami, Florida 

 33167. 



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