Occurrence of Hylonycteris underwoodi (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) and Thyroptera tricolor (Chiroptera, Thyropteridae) in Honduras

ABSTRACT

The geographic distributions of Hylonycteris underwoodi and Thyroptera tricolor in Honduras have been established with specimens collected more than 50 years ago. Here, we describe the occurrence of these bat species captured in the historic city of Ciudad Blanca, Gracias a Dios in northeastern Honduras.

RESUMEN

Las distribuciones geográficas de Hylonycteris underwoodi y Thyroptera tricolor en Honduras se han mantenido con especímenes recolectados hace más de 50 años. Aquí, describimos la ocurrencia de estas especies de murciélagos capturados en la ciudad histórica de Ciudad Blanca, Gracias a Dios en el noreste de Honduras.

KEYWORDS:

• Underwood’s Long Tongued Bat
• Spix’s Disk Winged Bat
• Gracias a Dios
• Ciudad Blanca

Acknowledgments

We thank Louis W. Porras and two anonymous reviewers who improved the quality of this manuscript; Nereyda Estrada and Franklin Castañeda for all the information provided in this work; Miltón Salazar, Josué Galdamez, Eric Van Den Berghe, Travis King, Marcío Martínez and Manfredo Turcios Padgett for field assistance; Steve Elkins, Trond Larsen, Douglas Preston and Conservation International (CI) for supporting this research; the Instituto Nacional de Conservación y Desarrollo Forestal, Áreas Protegidas y Vida Silvestre (ICF) for the research and collection permit (DE-MP-020-17); Jean Kollantai for her comments on a previous version of this manuscript; Lucía Portillo for providing Figure 1; and Proyecto Ixchel: Pensamiento sin fronteras for their comments on this manuscript.

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Funding

This work was supported by Conservation International (CI).