Check List 14(5): 805-810, doi: 10.15560/14.5.805
Notes on the geographic range and distribution of two free-tailed bat species (Chiroptera, Molossidae) in Costa Rica
David Villalobos-Chaves‡, Andrea González-Quirós§, Luis Lara-Hernández§, Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera|‡‡ Programa para la Conservación de los Murciélagos de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica§ Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y Luz, S.A., Unidad de Sostenibilidad, Área Gestión Ambiental y Recursos Naturales, San José, Costa Rica| Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Biología, San José, Costa Rica
Corresponding author: Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera ( bernal.rodriguez@ucr.ac.cr ) Academic editor: William Corrêa Tavares © 2018 David Villalobos-Chaves, Andrea González-Quirós, Luis Lara-Hernández, Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Villalobos-Chaves D, González-Quirós A, Lara-Hernández L, Rodríguez-Herrera B (2018) Notes on the geographic range and distribution of two free-tailed bat species (Chiroptera, Molossidae) in Costa Rica. Check List 14(5): 805-810. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.5.805 |  |
Abstract
Nyctinomops laticaudatus (É. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1805) and Eumops nanus (Miller, 1900) are 2 species with distributions that are expected for Costa Rica. However, voucher specimens that confirm the presence of these species in the country are absent or missing in museum collections. Here we document voucher specimens and present data that confirm the presence of N. laticaudatus and E. nanus in Costa Rica.
Keywords
Eumops nanus; Nyctinomops laticaudatus; Central America; new records