First Records of the Occurrence of the Long-Legged Bat (Macrophyllum) in Honduras and Venezuela
1957; Oxford University Press; Volume: 38; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jmammal/38.3.406-b
ISSN1545-1542
Autores Tópico(s)Amphibian and Reptile Biology
ResumoThe rare long-legged bat, Macrophyllum macrophyllum Schinz, is known from two or three dozen specimens from a few localities in Brazil, British Guiana, Peru, Colombia and Panama (Sanborn, Jour. Mamm., 30: 279, 1949). Felten (Senckenbergiana Biologica, 37: 183, 1956) has recently reported it in El Salvador. In addition to the three specimens that Goldman captured in the Panama Canal Zone (Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 69(5): 183, 1920) there are three others in the U.S. National Museum. Two (US 260183, 260184) were obtained by Osgood and Conover at Lagunillas, Zulia, Venezuela, on May 9 and 10, 1920. The third (US 296171) was secured by Ray Greenfield near the Río Sicre, Colón, northeastern Honduras, on March 26, 1952. Apparently remaining a mystery are the habits of this bat and the function of its peculiar posterior anatomy. Its legs, feet and claws are unusually long, and its interfemoral membrane is strikingly long and...
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