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- Title
THE BIG FREE-TAILED BAT, Nyctinomops macrotis (GRAY, 1839), IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
- Authors
Mora, José Manuel; Espinal, Mario R.; Ruedas, Luis A.; López, Lucía I.
- Abstract
The big free-tailed bat, Nyctinomops macrotis, is a large molossid with a discontinuous distribution in the southwestern United States and most of Mexico (northern range), and northern South America (southern range). In addition, the species has been documented in the Caribbean in Cuba (type locality), Hispaniola, and Jamaica. A large gap in the species distribution existed from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Mexico) southward to southeast of the Darién Gap, between Panama and Colombia, an overland distance of some 2500 km. Here, we report the first records of the species for Central America, based on two recently collected specimens from the southern highlands of Honduras.
- Subjects
CENTRAL America; FREE-tailed bats; GEOGRAPHICAL distribution of mammals
- Publication
Journal of Neotropical Mammalogy / Mastozoologia Neotropical, 2016, Vol 23, Issue 2, p551
- ISSN
0327-9383
- Publication type
Article