Bats from the Atlantic rainforest of southern Bahia, Brazil

Abstract

Data collected during 16 years of bat surveys (1986 to 2002) in southern Bahia, Brazil, is presented here. Bats were surveyed in 14 municipalities, in habitats that included residences, caves, forests and agricultural areas, resulting in a total of 6576 captures of 60 species from the bat families Emballonuridae (5 sp), Noctilionidae (1 sp), Phyllostomidae (46 sp), Thyropteridae (1 sp), Natalidae (1 sp), Molossidae (3 sp) and Vespertilionidae (2 sp). These data include 29 species not previously documented for the state of Bahia. We also report the first record of Vampyrodes caraccioli for this biome, extending its distribution over 3.000 km eastwards. The present data significantly increase the knowledge of the bat fauna of Bahia, providing an updated list of 78 documented species, belonging to 50 different genera and eight families.

Research on bats (Chiroptera) from the state of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil: annotated species list and bibliographic review

“…Recorded for the C , NW and SE regions. The additional record for SE, from Caverna Santana is the second occurrence of the species in caves of Brazil, the first being a record from the state of Bahia (Faria et al, 2006). Arquivos de Zoologia, 47(3), 2016 tween the record from São Paulo and the type locality of M. brosseti, I prefer to remove the species from the list until further evidence about its occurrence in São Paulo is presented and the true identity of the Field Museum specimen is asserted.…”

Diclidurus albus Wied-Neuwied, 1820 (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae): first record of the species in the state of Paraíba, Brazil

“…There are few records of the species in Brazil, which are restricted to the states of Amazonas (Reis and Peracchi 1987, Bernard and Fenton 2002, Lim and Engstrom 2005, Castro-Arellano et al 2007, Bernard et al 2011, Peracchi et al 2011, Martins et al 2012, Pará (Peracchi et al 2011), Amapá (Peracchi et al 1984, Peracchi et al 2011, Espirito Santo (Mendes et al 2010, Peracchi et al 2011, Bahia (Oliveira 2004, Vaz 2005, Faria et al 2006, Peracchi et al 2011, Rondônia (Peracchi et al 2011) and Pernambuco (Feijó and Langguth, 2011) (Figure 1). Despite being reported in a neighboring state, the species has never been recorded in the state of Paraíba.…”

Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Nísia Floresta National Forest, with new records for the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil

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