Ectophylla, H. Allen, 1892

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 : 116

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4546302

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scientific name

Ectophylla
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Phylogenetic relationships between Ectophylla , Mesophylla , and Vampyressa have been the subject of much debate in the literature. Most workers have retained all three as distinct genera (e.g., Hall, 1981; Koopman, 1993, 1994), but some authors have considered Mesophylla to be a junior synomym of Vampyressa (e.g., Owen, 1987) or of Ectophylla (e.g., Goodwin and Greenhall, 1962; Handley, 1976). Recently, Peffley et al. (MS) found strong support for a sistergroup relationship between Ectophylla and Mesophylla , both of which are monotypic, and argued that Ectophylla alba H. Allen (1892) and Mesophylla macconnelli Thomas (1901a) should be placed in a single genus to reflect this relationship. We therefore use the older generic name for both species, and provide a formal diagnosis for Ectophylla as so defined.

EMENDED DIAGNOSIS OF ECTOPHYLLA: Size small (weight less than 11 g and forearm length less than 35 mm); dorsal and ventral fur pale buff, grayish white, or white; no white facial stripes or middorsal stripe; skin of noseleaf, ears, and thumb bright yellow; ventral border of narial horseshoe defined by a free flap of skin; uropatagium short, naked, translucent; length of calcar less than onehalf length of hindfoot; dental formula I 2/2, C 2/2, P 2/2, M 2/2–3 x 2 = 28–30; rostrum approximately three­fourths the length of the braincase; rostrum not inflated and without a deep depression or long nasal emargination; interpterygoid space not extended by a deep palatal emargination; inner upper incisors elongate, unworn crown height more than twice that of outer incisors; inner upper incisors not deeply bifid; m1 without posterolingual cusp (crown resembles that of last premolar); lingual cusps of m2 vestigial or absent.

Allen, H. 1892. Description of a new genus of phyllostome bats. Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 15: 441 - 442

Hall, E. R. 1981. Mammals of North America, 2 nd ed. New York: Wiley and Sons.

1993. Order Chiroptera. In D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (eds.), Mammal species of the World, a taxonomic and geographic reference, 2 nd ed.: 137 - 241. Washington, DC: Smithson. Inst. Press.

Owen, R. D. 1987. Phylogenetic analysis of the bat subfamily Stenodermatinae (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Spec. Publ. Mus. Texas Tech Univ. 26: 65 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Phyllostomidae

SubFamily

Stenodermatinae