Gnome fruit-eating bat

Gnome fruit-eating bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Artibeus
Species: A. gnomus
Binomial name
Artibeus gnomus
Handley, 1987

The gnome fruit-eating bat (Artibeus gnomus) is a bat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. This species was originally discovered to be different from the other known species of fruit bats, but later, in 1994 were mistakenly grouped under Artibeus cinereus as a synonym.[1] However, this has since been corrected by more closely studying their physical differences and by biomolecular analysis.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Koopman, K.F. (1994). Chiroptera: systematics. Handbook of zoology: a natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom VIII. New York, USA: Walter de Gruyter.
  2. ↑ Solari, S.; Hoofer, SR.; Larsen, P.A.; Brown, A.D.; Bull, R.J.; Guerrero, J.A.; Ortega, J.; Carrera, J.P.; Bradley, R.D. & Baker, R.J. (2009). "Operational criteria for genetically defined species: analysis of the diversification of the small fruit-eating bats". Dermanura (Phyllostomidae: Stenodermatinae). Acta Chiropterologica. 11 (2): 279–288.
  3. ↑ Simmons, N.B. (2005). Mammal Species of the World. Baltimore, MD, USA.: The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 312–529.
  4. ↑ Hoofer, S.R.; Solari, S.; Larsen, P.A.; Bradley, R.D. & Baker, R.J. (2008). "Phylogenetics of the fruit-eating bats (Phyllostomidae: Artibeina) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences.". Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University. 272: 1–15.


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