Noteworthy Mammals from Sinaloa, MexicoAlvarez, Ticul
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Noteworthy Mammals from Sinaloa, Mexico
Alvarez, Ticul
Mammals -- Mexico -- Sinaloa (State)
_=Pteronotus psilotis=_ (Dobson).--A total of six specimens from two
localities in southern Sinaloa provide the first records from the state
and are the northernmost records in western México. The two localities
are: ½ mi. S Concepción, 250 ft. (84987-90); 1 mi. W Matatán
(84985-86). The two individuals from the last-mentioned place extend the
known range of the species approximately 275 miles north-northwest from
a locality 7 mi. W, ½ mi. S Santiago, Colima (Anderson, 1956:349), and
place the limit of the known distribution of _P. psilotis_ farther to
the north in western México than in the eastern part of the country. We
follow Burt and Stirton (1961:24-25) in use of the generic name
_Pteronotus_ for this species.
The two specimens from 1 mi. W Matatán were shot at late dusk as they
foraged with other bats, presumably of the same species, low over water
at the place where the Río San Antonio joins the larger Río Baluarte.
The four individuals from ½ mi. S Concepción were captured in mist
nets stretched across the Río de las Cañas at the Sinaloa-Nayarit
border, and were taken shortly after dark at heights of three feet or
less above the water. Our six specimens all are males. Five are in the
reddish color phase and one is in the brownish phase.
Average and extreme measurements of the six males, which average
slightly smaller than specimens examined from Colima and Guerrero,
are as follows: total length, 66.8 (65-69); length of tail, 16.3
(15-18); length of hind foot, 11.8 (11-12); length of ear from
notch, 16.9 (16.5-17.0); length of forearm (dry), 41.5 (40.6-42.4);
weight in grams, 8.3 (6.9-9.8); greatest length of skull, 15.4
(15.2-15.5); zygomatic breadth, 8.3 (8.2-8.4); interorbital
constriction, 3.4 (3.3-3.6); mastoid breadth, 8.7 (8.6-8.8); length
of maxillary tooth-row, 5.8 (5.8-5.9); breadth across M3, 5.4
(5.3-5.6).
_=Sturnira lilium parvidens=_ Goldman.--The first specimens to be
reported from Sinaloa are as follows: 32 mi. SSE Culiacán (61087); 1 mi.
S El Dorado (75207); Pánuco, 22 km. NE Concordia (85648-50). The three
bats from the last-mentioned locality were caught after midnight in a
mist net stretched across a road adjacent to a nearly dry stream bed.
The vegetation in the vicinity of the net consisted mostly of dry weeds
and grass along with some low shrubs, but a tree-filled canyon was about
one-fourth mile above the net. We lack details about the capture of the
other two bats.
_S. l. parvidens_ has been reported only once from farther north in
western México than Sinaloa. Anderson (1960:7) recorded five specimens
from along the Río Septentrión, 1½ mi. SW Tocuina, Chihuahua.
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