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| The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana, a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1, Bats. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 237 |
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| Title: | The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana, a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1, Bats. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 237 |
| Other Titles: | Paracou bats |
| Authors: | Simmons, Nancy B. Voss, Robert S. |
| Issue Date: | 1998 |
| Publisher: | [New York] : American Museum of Natural History |
| Series/Report no.: | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History ; no. 237 |
| Abstract: | "This report describes the results of bat inventory fieldwork at Paracou, a lowland rainforest locality in northern French Guiana. Working within a 3-km radius over the course of 168 sampling days from 1991 to 1994, we captured 3126 bats, of which about 78% were taken in ground-level mistnets, 10% in mistnets suspended above ground level, and 12% at roosts. We identified a total of 78 species, including 10 emballonurids, 2 noctilionids, 1 mormoopid, 49 phyllostomids, 1 furipterid, 1 thyropterid, 5 vespertilionids, and 9 molossids. Among our taxonomic results, we describe a new species of Micronycteris (sensu stricto) to honor André Brosset, pioneering monographer of rainforest bat faunas in India, Africa, and South America. In addition, we report the first records of eight other species from French Guiana: Centronycteris maximiliani, Peropteryx kappleri, Saccopteryx gymnura, Micronycteris homezi, Micronycteris schmidtorum, Molossops paranus, Molossus sinaloae, and Promops centralis. Mo... |
| Description: | 219 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-215). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1634 |
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