Rare or misidentified? On the external identification of the neglected Artibeus inopinatus Davis & Carter, 1964 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in Honduras

By

Turcios-Casco, Manfredo A.
Ávila-Palma, Hefer Daniel
Ordoñez Trejo, Eduardo Javier
Soler Orellana, José Alejandro
Ordoñez Mazier, Diego Iván
Meza-Flores, David Eduardo
Velázquez, Alejandro

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-2-20

Original Publication

Evolutionary systematics

Volume

4

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

35--43

Subjects

Artibeus , Central America , Honduran Fruit-eating Bat , Stenodermatinae , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Hamburg Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.4.49377

 

Abstract

For years, the identification ofArtibeusspecies has been controversial due to the overlap of morphometric characteristics between species. From February 2015 to September 2019, we sampled 25 sites in 10 departments of Honduras, and captured 81Artibeusindividuals using mist-nets. We determined the morphometric measurements that may be helpful in the identification of adult individuals of the Honduran Fruit-eating Bat,Artibeus inopinatus, in the field. We analyzed 648 morphometric measurements using a linear discriminant analysis, and determined that the forearm length, third metacarpal length, the length of the second phalanx of digit III, and body length are the main characteristics for the external identification ofA. inopinatus.