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Item Bat records from Upper Volta, West Africa. American Museum novitates ; no. 2643(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1978) Koopman, Karl F.; Mumford, Russell E.; Heisterberg, Jon F."The bats of Upper Volta are reviewed, based chiefly on previously unreported material. For the 27 species recognized, locality, habitat, and reproductive data are given. Taxonomic notes are added where necessary, and the distributional patterns in Upper Volta are considered in relation to the vegetation belts in West Africa. All but two species occur in the Sudan savanna, but nearly half of these also occur in the Guinea savanna, to which the two additonal species appear to be confined. Several species reach the Sahel savanna. Whereas 12 species are recorded from Upper Volta for the first time, only two represent significant range extensions: Pipistrellus deserti south from Algeria and Tadarida demonstrator west from Sudan. A gazetteer of bat collecting localities in Upper Volta is included"--P. [1].Item Bats from eastern Papua and the East Papuan islands. American Museum novitates ; no. 2747(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1982) Koopman, Karl F."The bat fauna of eastern Papua, including Central, Northern, and Milne Bay provinces on the mainland and the Louisiade, D'Entrecasteaux, and Trobriand archipelagos, is reviewed. Five families, 23 genera, and 45 species are known from the area. Forty species are known from the mainland or continental islands and 23 from from one or another island (or islands) of the three archipelagos. Only six species occur on the islands but not on the mainland and only two of these (Dobsonia pannietensis, Kerivoula agnella) are endemic. Most of the insular species for which precise affinities can be determined show closest relationship to mainland populations, but a few have their affinities with those of the Bismarcks or Solomons. Most of the East Papuan mainland species are apparently confined to the lowlands. The East Papuan highland bat fauna is seemingly depauperate compared with that of more extensive highland areas to the northwest. There is only one documented case of altitudinal variation within a species (Pipistrellus) and only one of altitudinal replacement among close relatives (Tadarida). A new subspecies, Rhinolophus megaphyllus vandeuseni, is described"--P. [1].Item Bats in Iceland. American Museum novitates ; no. 2262(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1966) Koopman, Karl F.; Finnur Gumundsson.Item Bats of Bolivia : an annotated checklist. American Museum novitates ; no. 2750(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1982) Anderson, Sydney, 1927-; Koopman, Karl F.; Creighton, G. Ken."A list of 79 species of bats known by Bolivian specimens is annotated with references to the literature (for species previously reported) or with specimens forming the basis for listing (in the case of 18 species reported for the first time here). A gazetteer of localities, lists of specimens and tables of measurements for a number of species that were previously unknown or poorly known from Bolivia are included"--P. [1].Item The bats of Liberia : systematics, ecology and distribution. American Museum novitates ; no. 3148(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1995) Koopman, Karl F.; Kofron, Christopher Patrick, 1952-; Chapman, Angela, 1951-Item Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 154, article 4(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1975) Koopman, Karl F."A revision of the species of bats (Chiroptera) occurring in the Republic of the Sudan (the former Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) is presented. Sixty-six species are definitely recognized as occurring within the boundaries of the country, whereas some 38 others are known from nearby areas and may cross its borders. All eight of the widespread Old World families are represented. Most of the Sudan lies within the Ethiopian region but a relatively small area in the north is best allocated to the arid southwestern Palearctic. The bat fauna is grouped into nine ecogeographical categories (forest, forest-savanna, savanna, east African, desert, savanna-Palearctic, desert-Palearctic, Palearctic, and unclassified), and the Sudanese distribution of the species in each category is summarized. A number of interesting taxonomic problems are discussed, but the final resolution of most of them will involve analysis outside the Sudan"--P. 355.Item Bats of the Virgin Islands in relation to those of the Greater and Lesser Antilles. American Museum novitates ; no. 2581(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1975) Koopman, Karl F."The bats of the Virgin Islands (including Vieques and Culebra) are discussed in relation to distribution, feeding, and roosting habits. The bat fauna of these islands is compared with those of the northern Lesser Antilles and Puerto Rico and it is concluded that the Virgin Island bat fauna is a depauperate derivative of that of Puerto Rico. Of the eight passages of bat species here discussed between the Greater and Lesser Antilles, four probably went from west to east, three from east to west, and one is indeterminate"--P. [1].Item Distributional patterns of Indo-Malayan bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera). American Museum novitates ; ; no. 2942.(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1989) Koopman, Karl F.Item Does interspecific competition limit the sizes of ranges of species?. American Museum novitates ; no. 2716(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1981) Anderson, Sydney, 1927-; Koopman, Karl F."A 'competition hypothesis' states that the species in faunas with more species (more diversity) have greater competition, narrower niches, and therefore smaller geographic ranges (less distribution). An alternative 'available space hypothesis' states that species occupy suitable available space without regard to the presence or absence of other species. We use American bats and North American rodents as groups to discriminate between the two hypotheses and see that available space is a better predictor of distribution than is diversity. Thus, the competition hypothesis is weakened and the available space hypothesis is strengthened"--p. [1].Item Extinction and biogeography of bats on 'Eua, Kingdom of Tonga. American Museum novitates ; no. 3125(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1995) Koopman, Karl F.; Steadman, David W."Prehistoric bones from caves on the island of 'Eua, Kingdom of Tonga, document the former presence of the megachiropterans Pteropus tonganus, Pteropus samoensis, and Notopteris macdonaldi and the microchiropterans Emballonura semicaudata and Chaerephon jobensis. Of these five species of bats, only Pteropus tonganus and Emballonura semicaudata still occur on 'Eua or anywhere else in Tonga. Bones of all five species occur in sediments that predate the arrival of humans on 'Eua (i.e., those more than 3500-3000 years old) as well as in younger deposits. The extinction of bat species on 'Eua, as with the two species of lizards and 23 species of land birds, is probably related to human impact"--P. [1].Item Fossil Chiroptera collected by H.E. Anthony in Jamaica, 1919-1920. American Museum novitates ; no. 1519(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1951) Koopman, Karl F.; Williams, Ernest E. (Ernest Edward); Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970.; Anthony Jamaica Expedition (1919-1920)"The foregoing account has, in terms of described forms, not added any radical novelties to the West Indian faunal picture. Tonatia saurophila occurs as a Jamaican endemic, the genus being unknown elsewhere in the Antilles, and is quite comparable to the Jamaican Oryzomys. The discovery of Brachyphylla and Natalus on Jamaica and the rediscovery of the phyllonycterine Reithronycteris round out a distributional pattern otherwise anomalous. Very interesting are the hints presented by the fossil material of faunal replacement, of successive invasions, and successive extinctions. The validity of this conception probably extends beyond the chiropteran order, but additional evidence is needed to translate the suggested picture into concrete terms not alone for Jamaica but for the other Antilles"--P. 27.Item Fossil lizards of the West Indian genus Aristelliger (Gekkonidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 1538(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1951) Hecht, Max K., 1925-; Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970.; Williams, Ernest E. (Ernest Edward); Koopman, Karl F.; Hecht, Bessie M.; Anthony Jamaica Expedition (1919-1920)Item The genus Chalinolobus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) : taxonomic review of Chalinolobus picatus, C. nigrogriseus, and C. rogersi. American Museum novitates ; no. 2468(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1971) Van Deusen, Hobart M.; Koopman, Karl F.Item The identity of bats (genus Myotis) collected in Arizona by Miller, Price, and Condit in 1894. American Museum novitates ; no. 2140(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1963) Koopman, Karl F.; Miller, Gerrit S. (Gerrit Smith), 1869-1956.; Price, William W.; Condit, B. C.; Price Expedition to Arizona (1894)Item A new fossil rodent from Puerto Rico. American Museum novitates ; no. 1515(New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1951) Williams, Ernest E. (Ernest Edward); Koopman, Karl F.; Thorp, James.Item Notes on the occurrence and ecology of Tadarida laticaudata yucatanica in eastern Cuba. American Museum novitates ; no. 2174(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1964) Silva Taboada, Gilberto.; Koopman, Karl F.Item A record of the tube-nosed bat (Murina florium) from western New Guinea (Irian Jaya) : with notes on related species (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). American Museum novitates ; ; no. 2934.(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1989) Koopman, Karl F.; Danforth, T. N.Item The relationships of the West Indian species of Aratinga (Aves, Psittacidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 1712(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1955) Marien, Daniel, ornithologist.; Koopman, Karl F.Item Status of forms described or recorded by J.A. Allen in "The American Museum Congo Expedition collection of bats." American Museum novitates ; no. 2219(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1965) Koopman, Karl F.; Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921. American Museum Congo Expedition collection of bats.; Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957. American Museum Congo Expedition collection of bats.; Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964. American Museum Congo Expedition collection of bats.; American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915)Item The systematic and historical status of the Florida Eumops (Chiroptera, Molossidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 2478(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1971) Koopman, Karl F."Specimens of Eumops from Florida that have been identified as E. glaucinus are shown to be markedly larger than tropical American material of that species. The Recent Florida specimens show good agreement, however, with the Florida Pleistocene E. floridanus. Judged by the degree of difference which characterizes specific as opposed to subspecific differentiation in Eumops, the Florida form may be called Eumops glaucinus floridanus. No convincing explanation has been found for the restriction of this form to extreme southern Florida since the Pleistocene"--P. [1].