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- Title
The distribution of the spectral bat, Vampyrum spectrum, reaches the Southern Pantanal.
- Authors
Silveira, Maurício; Lobo Munin, Roberto; Moraes Tomás, Walfrido; Fischer, Erich; Bordignon, Marcelo Oscar; de Almeida Silveira, Guilli
- Abstract
The largest New World bat, Vampyrum spectrum, is a locally rare top predator, which occurs from Mexico to South America. Here, we report for the first time its occurrence in the southern Pantanal floodplain, basing our records on specimens that are also the first to be reported for the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. We conducted bat surveys in two sites 120 km apart, in the Aquidauana and Nhecolândia regions. Among 2,498 bat captures, two individuals of V. spectrum were mist-netted, one at each site. These records expand southward the distribution range of V. spectrum, and in addition to other records in the Northern Pantanal border and Bolivia support that V. spectrum is widely distributed in the upper Paraguay basin.
- Subjects
VAMPYRUM spectrum; BATS; PREDATORY animals; FLOODPLAIN ecology; WATERSHEDS
- Publication
Biota Neotropica, 2011, Vol 11, Issue 1, p173
- ISSN
1678-6424
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S1676-06032011000100017