New records of the rare Histiotus magellanicus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and other bats from central Patagonia, Argentina

Histiotus magellanicus (Philippi, 1866) is a poorly known Patagonian bat. Here we report on nine newly captured specimens and one unpublished locality from museum specimen that significantly improve our knowledge of this species' distribution, by incorporating two Argentine provinces and reduci...

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Autores: Giménez, Analía Laura, Giannini, Norberto Pedro, Schiaffini, Mauro Ignacio, Martin, Gabriel Mario
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/198917
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/198917
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:CENTRAL PATAGONIA
DISTRIBUTION
MOLOSSIDAE
VESPERTILIONIDAE
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Sumario:Histiotus magellanicus (Philippi, 1866) is a poorly known Patagonian bat. Here we report on nine newly captured specimens and one unpublished locality from museum specimen that significantly improve our knowledge of this species' distribution, by incorporating two Argentine provinces and reducing the distributional gap between northern and southern historical records. The new records confirm H. magellanicus as a Subantarctic Forests endemic. In addition, we report new specimens and localities from four poorly known Patagonian bats for Chubut province: Histiotus macrotus, Myotis chiloensis, Lasiurus varius (Vespertilionidae) and Tadarida brasiliensis (Molossidae).