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- Title: Velvety Fruit-Eating Bat (Enchistenes Harta; Phyllostomidae) in Morelos, Mexico (Notes) (Report)
- Author : Southwestern Naturalist
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 91 KB
Description
The velvety fruit-eating bat (Enchistenes hariii; Phyllostomidae) is a monotypic species of frugivorous bat that belongs to the subfamily Stenodermatinae. In Mexico the species has been reported along the Pacific Slope in the Mexican states of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero, and Oaxaca, along the Gulf Slope in Tamaulipas, Puebla, and Veracruz, and also in Chiapas (Arroyo-Cabrales, 2005). It also has been reported for the state of Mexico (Arroyo-Cabrales and Owen, 1996; Chavez and Ceballos, 1998) and Hidalgo (Cervantes et al., 2004). It is widely distributed southward through Central America and South America to Bolivia and Ecuador (Arroyo-Cabrales and Owen, 1997). In Mexico, and in most of its range, it is considered uncommon to rare and seems to be more abundant at moderate to higher elevations in Mexico. The species has been collected frequently near water and in various types of vegetation, but mostly in cloud forests, tropical deciduous forests, and pine-oak forests (Arroyo-Cabrales and Owen, 1997). The number of localities where it has been recorded are [less than or equal to] 40, and the state of Chiapas has the most records of occurrence (Arroyo-Cabrales and Owen, 1996; Espinoza-Medinilla et al., 1998; Sheeler-Gordon and Smith, 2001; Wang et al., 2003; Cervantes et al., 2004; Espinoza-Medinilla et al., 2004). The Mexican government considers E. hartii to be in need of special protection (Secretaria de Medic, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, 2002), and it is included in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN as being low risk and of least concern (Chiroptera Specialist Group, http:// www.iucnredlist.org).