1. The Yucatan Yellow Bat (Vespertilionidae, Rhogeessa aeneus): a New Record for Banco Chinchorro Atoll, Mexico
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Pierre Charruau, Rodrigo García-Morales, David Macías Díaz, and Axel Rissac
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Yucatan peninsula ,geography ,Multidisciplinary ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,biology ,Ecology ,Bursera simaruba ,Species diversity ,Atoll ,Rhogeessa aeneus ,biology.organism_classification - Abstract
The Yucatan yellow bat (Rhogeessa aeneus) is a poorly known species endemic to the Yucatan Peninsula, mainly distributed in tropical forests of the three Mexican states of Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatan. Here, we report the first record of this species in Cayo Centro, the main cay of Banco Chinchorro atoll, located in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, 47 km from the mainland in the Caribbean Sea. On May 2021, we captured three individuals of R. aeneus on Cayo Centro in a low coastal forest consisting mostly of Bursera simaruba. This is the second species of bat reported for the atoll, and more studies are needed to further the investigation on the species diversity and status of the populations there.
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- 2021
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