INVESTIGADORES
PAVE Romina Elizabeth
artículos
Título:
Morphological and molecular analyses confirm the presence of the newly described bat species Molossus melini in the Espinal ecoregion from Argentina
Autor/es:
PAVÉ, ROMINA; SCHIERLOH PABLO; CHAMBI MICAELA; PICCIRILLI MARIA GUADALUPE; ULMAN SABRINA; SILVINA SAAVEDRA; DANIEL M CISTERNA; CARABALLO DIEGO A
Revista:
Mammal Research
Editorial:
Springer
Referencias:
Año: 2023
ISSN:
2199-2401
Resumen:
Until now, Molossus melini was known only from its type locality, in the south of Santa Feprovince, Argentina. Specimens of this species were collected in 2021 from a roost in a Fraxinustree of the urban woodland of Paraná city, Entre Ríos province, Argentina. Bat identification wasmade by comparing external and cranial characters and measurements with those reported in thebibliography and corroborated by a phylogenetic analysis based on the cytochrome b gene. Also,multivariate morphometric analyses showed that cranial measurements, but not external ones, areinformative enough to discriminate M. melini from the other Molossus species in Argentina (M.currentium, M. fluminensis, and M. molossus). This new record extends the distribution of M.melini from the south of Santa Fe province by 230 km to the northeast and represents the firstrecord of the species in the Espinal ecoregion.