A new species of Long-eared Brown Bat of the genus Histiotus (Chiroptera) and the revalidation ofHistiotus colombiae
The South American bats of the genus Histiotus comprise between four and eight species, but their taxonomy has been controversial and the limits between species and their distribution are not well understood. In Colombia, Histiotushumboldti and H. montanus colombiae hav...
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| author | Miguel E. Rodríguez-Posada Darwin M. Morales-Martínez Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves Daniela Martínez-Medina Camilo A. Calderón-Acevedo |
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| description | The South American bats of the genus Histiotus comprise between four and eight species, but their taxonomy has been controversial and the limits between species and their distribution are not well understood. In Colombia, Histiotushumboldti and H. montanus colombiae have been recorded, but un-described species has been suggested. We evaluated the species richness and distribution of Colombian Histiotus using morphological, molecular, and acoustic traits. Our results evidence three species in Co-lombia, the two previously recorded taxa and a new species from the Cordillera Central of Colombia and northern Ecuador that we describe here. We also revalidated H. colombiae as a full species. H. hum-boldti is widely distributed in the Colombian and Ecuadorean Andes and can be sympatric with the other two species. H. colombiae is restricted to the Colombian Cordillera Oriental. Finally, we highlight the potential hidden diversity within Histiotus in the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, the need to resolve the evolutionary relationships of the genus, and its implications to the understanding of the processes that have structured the Andean mammal fauna. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d59f0e7b228549d2bea5f76831c5d0cc2025-08-20T03:46:09ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaCaldasia0366-52322357-37592021-02-01432221234https://doi.org/10.15446/caldasia.v43n2.85424A new species of Long-eared Brown Bat of the genus Histiotus (Chiroptera) and the revalidation ofHistiotus colombiaeMiguel E. Rodríguez-Posada0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5670-3440Darwin M. Morales-Martínez1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5786-4107Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2454-9482Daniela Martínez-Medina3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9431-8399Camilo A. Calderón-Acevedo4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1468-3565Fundación Reserva Natural La PalmitaUniversidad Nacional de Colombia Universidad de Caldas Fundación Reserva Natural La PalmitaUniversity AveThe South American bats of the genus Histiotus comprise between four and eight species, but their taxonomy has been controversial and the limits between species and their distribution are not well understood. In Colombia, Histiotushumboldti and H. montanus colombiae have been recorded, but un-described species has been suggested. We evaluated the species richness and distribution of Colombian Histiotus using morphological, molecular, and acoustic traits. Our results evidence three species in Co-lombia, the two previously recorded taxa and a new species from the Cordillera Central of Colombia and northern Ecuador that we describe here. We also revalidated H. colombiae as a full species. H. hum-boldti is widely distributed in the Colombian and Ecuadorean Andes and can be sympatric with the other two species. H. colombiae is restricted to the Colombian Cordillera Oriental. Finally, we highlight the potential hidden diversity within Histiotus in the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, the need to resolve the evolutionary relationships of the genus, and its implications to the understanding of the processes that have structured the Andean mammal fauna.https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/cal/article/view/85424/78456andescytochrome becholocation callsmorphometryvespertilionidae |
| spellingShingle | Miguel E. Rodríguez-Posada Darwin M. Morales-Martínez Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves Daniela Martínez-Medina Camilo A. Calderón-Acevedo A new species of Long-eared Brown Bat of the genus Histiotus (Chiroptera) and the revalidation ofHistiotus colombiae Caldasia andes cytochrome b echolocation calls morphometry vespertilionidae |
| title | A new species of Long-eared Brown Bat of the genus Histiotus (Chiroptera) and the revalidation ofHistiotus colombiae |
| title_full | A new species of Long-eared Brown Bat of the genus Histiotus (Chiroptera) and the revalidation ofHistiotus colombiae |
| title_fullStr | A new species of Long-eared Brown Bat of the genus Histiotus (Chiroptera) and the revalidation ofHistiotus colombiae |
| title_full_unstemmed | A new species of Long-eared Brown Bat of the genus Histiotus (Chiroptera) and the revalidation ofHistiotus colombiae |
| title_short | A new species of Long-eared Brown Bat of the genus Histiotus (Chiroptera) and the revalidation ofHistiotus colombiae |
| title_sort | new species of long eared brown bat of the genus histiotus chiroptera and the revalidation ofhistiotus colombiae |
| topic | andes cytochrome b echolocation calls morphometry vespertilionidae |
| url | https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/cal/article/view/85424/78456 |
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