Lophostoma brasiliense Peters, 1867

Velazco, Paúl M., Voss, Robert S., Fleck, David W. & Simmons, Nancy B., 2021, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021 (451), pp. 1-201 : 69

Lophostoma brasiliense Peters, 1867

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VOUCHER MATERIAL (TOTAL = 14): Jenaro Herrera (MUSM 5915, 5938), Nuevo San Juan (AMNH 272728–272732; MUSM 13264–13269), Quebrada Lobo (MUSA 15140); see table 32 for measurements.

UNVOUCHERED OBSERVATIONS: None.

IDENTIFICATION: Lophostoma brasiliense is a widespread species (or species complex; see below) that ranges from southern Mexico to central Bolivia and northeastern Brazil (Williams and Genoways, 2008; Reid, 2009). As currently recognized, this species is easily distinguished from other congeners by its small size (forearm <40 mm, greatest length of skull <22 mm), grayish or brownish (not white or cream) ventral fur, and lack of small warts on the forearm (Reid, 2009; Velazco and Gardner, 2012; López-Baucells et al., 2018). Descriptions and measurements of L. brasiliense were provided by Goodwin (1942), Goodwin and Greenhall (1961), Swanepoel and Genoways (1979), Brosset and Charles-Dominique (1990), Simmons and Voss (1998), Lim et al. (2005), Regalado and Albuja (2012), Velazco and Cadenillas (2011), and Velazco and Gardner (2012). No subspecies are currently recognized (Williams and Genoways, 2008), but analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequence data suggest that

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FIG. 17. Photographs of A, an adult Lophostoma brasiliense captured at Quebrada Blanco; and B, an adult female (ROM 122117) L. silvicolum captured at Jenaro Herrera. Photographs by Marco Tschapka (A) and Burton Lim (B).