Character variation and taxonomy of short-tailed fruit bats from Carollia in Brazil

By

Lemos, Túlio Henrique
Da Cunha Tavares, Valéria
Moras, Ligiane Martins

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-1-13

Original Publication

Zoologia

Volume

37

Pages

1--7

Subjects

Carollia , Morphology , Phyllostomidae

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Curitiba, PR, Brasil Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia [2009]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e34587

 

Abstract

Carolliahas a complex taxonomic history and is widely distributed in the Neotropics. Species ofCarolliaappear to have differentiated recently in the late Cenozoic, and present overlapping morphological characters that may not be useful to distinguish among species.Carolliahas recently been revised, but only a few specimens representing the Brazilian distribution ofCarolliawithin Brazil were studied. We reviewed specimens ofCarolliadistributed in several localities of Brazil revisiting previously described morphological characters for species identification, and taxonomic problems within the genus. We found a large degree of overlap between characters previously used to distinguish among species ofCarollia, and some of them constitute variation within a same species. We also report new records extending the known distribution ofC. benkeithito farther east of its previously known distribution (Parauapebas, southeastern Pará, and Vitória do Xingu, Pará, eastern Amazonian Brazil) and one record extending the distribution ofC. brevicaudasouth to Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.