Mesophylla macconnelli Thomas, 1901

Velazco, Paúl M. & Patterson, Bruce D., 2019, Small Mammals Of The Mayo River Basin In Northern Peru, With The Description Of A New Species Of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (429), pp. 1-69 : 25

Mesophylla macconnelli Thomas, 1901

VOUCHER MATERIAL: Tingana: 1 adult male ( FMNH 203618 ) ; Waqanki: 1 adult male ( MUSM 39198 ) ; see table 12 for measurements.

IDENTIFICATION: We consulted descriptions and measurements of Mesophylla macconnelli provided by Goodwin and Greenhall (1962), Ceballos Bendezú (1968), Starrett and Casebeer (1968), Carter and Dolan (1978), Swanepoel and Genoways (1979), Brosset and Charles-Dominique (1990), Anderson (1997), and Simmons and Voss (1998). No subspecies are currently recognized in M. macconnelli ( Arroyo-Cabrales, 2008a) . Our Mayo River basin specimens exhibit the diagnostic characteristics of the species: small size (FA 28–34 mm); ears and noseleaf yellow in live specimens, but paler in museum specimens; small accessory noseleaflike structure present behind the noseleaf; skull short with a relatively narrow rostrum; palate extending well behind the last molars; upper inner incisors long, convergent, and usually with weakly bifid tips; m2 lacking a posterior cuspulid; and minute m3 ( Arroyo-Cabrales, 2008a). Measurements of our specimens fall within the range reported for the species.