Check List 18(2): 335-339, doi: 10.15560/18.2.335
Extension of the distribution of Townsend’s Big-eared Bat, Corynorhinus townsendii (Cooper, 1837) (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), to Chiapas, Mexico
Issachar L. López-Cuamatzi‡, Yolanda Hortelano-Moncada§, Jorge Ortega|, Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés¶, Gerardo Zúñiga|, M. Cristina Mac Swiney G.‡‡ Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa de Enríquez, Mexico§ Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico| Departamento de Zoología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de México, Mexico¶ Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa de Enriquez, Mexico
Corresponding author: M. Cristina Mac Swiney G. ( cmacswiney@uv.mx ) Academic editor: Annia Rodríguez-San Pedro © Issachar L. López-Cuamatzi, Yolanda Hortelano-Moncada, Jorge Ortega, Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Gerardo Zúñiga, M. Cristina Mac Swiney G.. 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:
López-Cuamatzi IL, Hortelano-Moncada Y, Ortega J, Ospina-Garcés SM, Zúñiga G, Mac Swiney G MC (2022) Extension of the distribution of Townsend’s Big-eared Bat, Corynorhinus townsendii (Cooper, 1837) (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), to Chiapas, Mexico. Check List 18(2): 335-339. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.2.335 |  |
Abstract
We report the first record of Townsend’s Big-eared Bat, Corynorhinus townsendii (Cooper, 1837) from Chiapas, Mexico, based on three females collected on 29 September 1979 near Ocozocoautla de Espinosa and stored in the Colección Nacional de Mamíferos of the Instituto de Biología at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. The Chiapas locality is ~180 km east of the closest previously known occurrence in Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. This extends the distribution of C. townsendii through tropical areas of southeastern Mexico and corroborates the capacity of this species to inhabit a diversity of ecosystems.
Keywords
Biotic interchange, Chiapas, Corynorhinus mexicanus, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mammalia, Mexico, plecotine bats