Check List 11(6): e19385, doi: 10.15560/11.6.1783
Second record of Tadarida brasiliensis (I. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1824) (Chiroptera, Molossidae) in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
expand article infoSonia C. Zapata‡, Diego E. Procopio‡, Annick Morgenthaler‡, Alejandro Travaini‡
‡ Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Argentina

Corresponding author: Sonia Zapata ( titinazapata@yahoo.com.ar )

© 2017 Sonia Zapata, Diego Procopio, Annick Morgenthaler, Alejandro Travaini.
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Citation: Zapata S, Morgenthaler A, Procopio D, Travaini A (2015) Second record of Tadarida brasiliensis (I. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1824) (Chiroptera, Molossidae) in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Check List 11(6): 1783. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.6.1783
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Abstract
Although Tadarida brasiliensis is one of the most widely distributed species of bats in Argentina, it is nevertheless extremely scarce in Patagonia. We report a second record of T. brasiliensis for Santa Cruz province, which fills a gap in the geographical distribution of this species in that province and is also the third southernmost record for the species and for any molossid bat in the world.
Keywords
Tadarida brasiliensis; filling gap; Patagonia