Quirópteros do Parque Estadual da Pedra Branca, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Mammalia, Chiroptera)

• Autor(a) principal: Dias,Daniela
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Outros Autores: Peracchi,Adriano Lúcio, Silva,Shirley Seixas Pereira da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Zoologia (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-81752002000600012
• topic: Chiroptera; morphometrics; systematics; Southeastern Brazil

A survey of chiropteran fauna was conducted during the period from March 1994 to May 1998 in Pedra Branca State Park, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State. A total of 681 specimens of 24 species were recorded: Chrotopterus auritus (Peters, 1856); Micronycteris megalotis (Gray, 1842); Micronycteris minuta (Gervais, 1856); Mimmon bennettii (Gray, 1838); Phyllostomus hastatus (Pallas, 1767); Tonatia bidens (Von Spix, 1823); Lonchophylla bokermanni Sazima, Vizotto & Taddei, 1978; Lonchophylla mordax Thomas, 1903; Anoura caudifera (E. Geoffroy, 1818); Glosso-phaga soricina (Pallas, 1766); Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758); Artibeus fimbriatus Gray, 1838; Artibeus lituratus (Olfers, 1818); Artibeus obscuras Schinz, 1821; Chiroderma doriae Thomas, 1891; Platyrrhinus lineatus (E. Geoffroy, 1810); Platyrrhinus recifinus (Thomas, 1901); Sturnira lilium (E. Geoffroy, 1810); Vampyressa pusilla (Wagner, 1843); Desmodus rotundus (E. Geoffroy, 1810); Diphylla ecaudata Von Spix, 1823; Eptesicus brasiliensis (DesMarest, 1819); Myotis nigricans (Schinz, 1821) and Molossus molossus (Palas, 1766). One external (forearm length) and 13 cranial meansurements were studied for 23 species. The meansurements of male and female specimens were treated separately. Comments about some taxonomic respects for some species studied are also included.