Dennisse Ruelas‡, Victor Pacheco‡§Corresponding author: Dennisse Ruelas ( dennisse.ruelas@unmsm.edu.pe ) Academic editor: Annia Rodríguez-San Pedro © 2018 Dennisse Ruelas, Victor Pacheco. 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:
Ruelas D, Pacheco V (2018) Noteworthy records and distribution of Peruvian Long-tongued Bat, Platalina genovensium Thomas, 1928 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae). Check List 14(5): 937-944. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.5.937 |  |
Platalina genovensium is one of the most endangered species of the subfamily Lonchophyllinae, currently known from a few localities on the western slopes of the Andes, and only 1 locality on the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes. Here, we report 9 new localities for this species, including 3 from the eastern slopes, which confirm the oriental distribution. Besides, a potential distribution model further suggests the wider presence of P. genovensium on the eastern slope of Peru, from the Marañón River to at least the Huánuco department; and on the western side, the model suggests the species probably occurs in Antofagasta, Chile, but it could also represent a false positive.