Tonatia carrikeri (J. A. Allen)

Simmons, Nancy B. & Voss, Robert S., 1998, The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana, a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1, Bats, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 237, pp. 1-219 : 87-88

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4545052

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4546491

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4F19FC10-FFC4-FFF8-FCE0-2782FC3F8CED

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Plazi

scientific name

Tonatia carrikeri (J. A. Allen)
status

 

Tonatia carrikeri (J. A. Allen) View in CoL

VOUCHER MATERIAL: 1 female (AMNH *267918); see table 29 for measurements.

IDENTIFICATION: Tonatia carrikeri has been collected only rarely, so descriptions and measurements of most known specimens have been reported in the literature, for example, by Goodwin (1942), Husson (1962, 1978), Gardner (1976), Swanepoel and Genoways (1979), McCarthy et al. (1983, 1992), Genoways and Williams (1984), and McCar­ thy and Handley (1987). No subspecies are currently recognized (Koopman, 1994).

Our single female specimen of Tonatia carrikeri agrees with previous descriptions of the species in all respects. Like several other congeners, T. carrikeri folds its ears back over the crown of the head when they are touched.

FIELD OBSERVATIONS: The single example of Tonatia carrikeri we captured at Paracou was taken in a ground­level mistnet in swampy primary forest dominated by the palm Euterpe oleracea .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Phyllostomidae

Genus

Tonatia

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