The distribution of the spectral bat, Vampyrum spectrum, reaches the Southern Pantanal

Biota Neotropica

Maurício Silveira²  Roberto Lobo Munin²  Walfrido Moraes Tomás¹  Erich Fischer¹  Marcelo Oscar Bordignon¹  Guilli De Almeida Silveira¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do SulCampo Grande MS ,Brasil

关键词: Chiroptera;    wetlands;    Paraguay river basin;    Mato Grosso do Sul;    Phyllostominae;    Chiroptera;    áreas úmidas;    bacia do rio Paraguai;    Mato Grosso do Sul;    Phyllostominae;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1676-06032011000100017

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The largest New World bat, Vampyrum spectrum, is a locally rare top predator, which occurs from Mexico to South America. Here, we report for the first time its occurrence in the southern Pantanal floodplain, basing our records on specimens that are also the first to be reported for the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. We conducted bat surveys in two sites 120 km apart, in the Aquidauana and Nhecolândia regions. Among 2,498 bat captures, two individuals of V. spectrum were mist-netted, one at each site. These records expand southward the distribution range of V. spectrum, and in addition to other records in the Northern Pantanal border and Bolivia support that V. spectrum is widely distributed in the upper Paraguay basin.

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