Systematics of Funnel-Eared Bats (Chiroptera: Natalidae)

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

“…In light of the available evidence, and considering that only one species of Natalus is believed to occur in Brazil south of Rio Amazonas (Tejedor, 2011), I contend to keep the name Natalus macrourus.…”

An update on the distribution of the Brazilian Funnel-eared Bat, Natalus macrourus (Gervais, 1856) (Mammalia, Chiroptera), with new records from the Brazilian Northeastern

“…Characters were consistent with Tejedor (2011) to identify N. macrourus, including short maxillary toothrow length (6.5-7.0 mm); deeply concave medial margin of auricular pinna; lateral margin of auricular pinna deeply notched; nostrils small and oval, opening ventrolaterally; ventral pelage unicolored; dorsal pelage bicolored, with hair bases lighter; premaxilla not inflated, with premaxillarymaxillary suture anterior to infraorbital foramen; maxilla convex but not inflated; I1 not visible in lateral view, being obscured by I2. The cranial measurements recorded here were within the range of presented by Taddei and Uieda (2001) for N. macrourus ( Table 2).…”

“…The present study provides the first records of N. macrourus from the Brazilian state of Sergipe filling a gap of approximately 800 km in the distribution of N. macrourus between southern Bahia (Tejedor, 2011;Faria et al 2006) and eastern Paraíba (Feijó and Langguth 2011) resulting in a total number of 35 bat species known to occur in the state (Astúa and Guerra 2008; Mikalauskas et al 2011;Rocha et al 2011;Brito and Bocchiglieri 2012). Localities at which the occurrence of the Brazilian funnel-eared bat Natalus macrourus has been confirmed.…”

Morphology of the axial skeleton of seven bat genera (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

“…Some studies include certain postcranial characters in the analysis of evolutionary and phylogenetic relationships or in ecological studies (e.g. Novacek 1987, Simmons 1994, Wetterer et al 2000, Simmons and Conway 2001, Gunnell and Simmons 2005, Velazco 2005, DesRoche et al 2007, Tavares 2008, Tejedor 2011, O'Leary et al 2013, being the study of O' Leary et al (2013) one of the phylogenetic analysis that included more postcranial characters among mammals; but detailed studies of the postcranial elements of bats are still scarce (Martinez 2010), and have not been PABLO J. GAUDIOSO, M. MÓNICA DÍAZ and RUBÉN M. BARQUEZ analyzed in relation with different trophic guilds.…”