Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua, with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the Country — John Shaqi
Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua, with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the CountryJones, J. Knox
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Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua, with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the Country
Jones, J. Knox
Bats -- Nicaragua
Selected measurements of the male are: total length, 92 mm; length of
tail, 31 mm; length of hind foot, 10 mm; length of ear, 15 mm; length
of forearm, 39.2 mm; weight, 10.3 gms; greatest length of skull, 17.2
mm; zygomatic breadth, 10.6 mm; postorbital constriction, 4.0 mm;
breadth of braincase, 8.6 mm; length of maxillary toothrow, 6.5 mm.
Eumops auripendulus (Shaw, 1800)
A broken skull (USNM 339917) of a female of this species from Hda.
Mecatepe [2 km N, 11.5 km E Nandaime, _ca._ 40 m], Granada, represents
the only known specimen of the genus _Eumops_ from Nicaragua. This bat
was obtained by M. K. Clark on 25 August 1964, but the conditions under
which it was captured are not known. Available cranial measurements
are: zygomatic breadth, 12.6 mm; breadth of braincase, 10.7 mm;
postorbital breadth, 4.3 mm; rostral breadth, 7.4 mm; length of
maxillary toothrow, 9.1 mm; length of mandibular c-m3, 10.0 mm.
Molossus ater nigricans Miller, 1902
_Specimens._--_Chinandega_: Potosí, 5 m, 21; 4.5 km N Cosigüina, 15
m, 2; El Paraíso, 1 km N Cosigüina, 20 m, 17; Hda. Bellavista, 720
m, Volcán Casita, 4; Hda. San Isidro, 10 km S Chinandega, 20 m, 2;
San Antonio, 35 m, 2. _Nueva Segovia_: Corozo, 15 km NNE Jalapa,
660 m, 1; 3.5 km S, 2 km W Jalapa, 660 m, 4.
Only one specimen of this large molossid (from Volcán de Chinandega--J.
A. Allen, 1908:670) has been reported from Nicaragua. All of our
specimens are from the northern or northwestern part of the country.
Many were shot in early evening as they followed a straight, direct
flight pattern (presumably from day-roosts toward foraging or watering
areas); the series from Potosí was netted over a small stream as
described in the account of _Noctilio leporinus_. We confidently refer
our material to the species currently known as _ater_, although
assignment to the subspecies nigricans is tentative.
Of 21 females autopsied in the first week of March on the Cosigüina
Peninsula, seven were pregnant, each with a single embryo (7-22 mm in
crown-rump length, average 16.7). Ten males taken at the same time had
an average testicular length of 5.7 (2-7) mm, whereas the testes of a
male obtained on 9 March at San Antonio measured 8 mm. None of five
females obtained in late July in Nueva Segovia evidenced reproductive
activity, nor did two of three females taken in July and one taken in
August from Chinandega; the fourth Chinandegan female, taken on 17
July, carried an embryo that was 36 mm in length. Two males from
southern Chinandega (mid-July) had testes 7 and 4 mm long.
Representative measurements of 10 specimens of each sex from Nicaragua
are given in Table 4.
Molossus molossus aztecus Saussure, 1860
_Specimens._--_Chinandega_: Potosí, 5 m, 1; Hda. San Isidro, 10 km
S Chinandega, 20 m, 1 (USNM). _Boaco_: Santa Rosa, 17 km N, 15 km E
Boaco, 300 m, 7. _Managua_: 3 mi SW Managua, 8. _Rivas_: Rivas, 60
m, 4.
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