Platyrrhinus albericoi Velazco 2005
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Platyrrhinus
Platyrrhinus albericoi

description: 174. Alberico’s Broad-nosed Bat <i>Platyrrhinus albericoi</i> <b>French:</b> Sténoderme dAlberico / <b>German:</b> Alberico-Breitnasenfledermaus / <b>Spanish:</b> Platirrino de Alberico <b>Taxonomy.</b> Platyrrhinus albericoi Velazco, 2005, “ San Pedro, Paucartambo-Pilcopata road, 1480 m in elevation, Province of Paucartambo, Department of Cuzco, Peru, ap-proximately 13°0'1" [sic] S, 71°32'46" [sic] WwW” Platyrrlunus albericot was distinguished from P. vittatus based on morphological and molecular studies, but information as-sociated to these two speciesisstill confus-ing. Monotypic. <b>Distribution.</b> N &amp; W Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, E Peru, and N Bolivia. <b>Descriptive notes.</b> Head-body 90-100 mm (tailless), ear 24-25 mm, hindfoot 15-16 mm, forearm 57-63 mm; weight 55-68 g. Alberico’s Broad-nosed Bat is one of the largest species of Platyrrhinus. Fur is dense and soft. Dorsal fur is blackish brown and long (8 mm); hairs on back and underparts are tricolored; dorsal line on mid-back is snow white and narrow from crown to base of caudal membrane; and underparts are grayish brown to light brown, paler than back. Head is robust, short, and broad. Face has four parallel stripes, snow white and conspicuous; upper ones run from behind nose over eyes to upper edges of ears on crown; lower ones are less sharply defined and run from upperlip under eyes to lower edges of the ears. Noseleat is fleshy, large, and spear-shaped; edges of noseleaf are dark, never bright yellow, and lower rim is free; ears are large and rounded, edges sometimes pale, but never yellow; and folds on ears are poorly marked but distinguishable along rear edge. Length of third metacarpal is subequal to fifth; elbows are densely furred and colored like back. Caudal membrane is very short in middle, with deep V-shaped groove; edge has dense fringe of short hairs; and hairs on upper surface of feet are long and dense. I' are broad and converging, with parallel tips, and twice as long as I&gt;. M' mesostyle is present, M* metastyle is absent, and stylid cusps are absent on anterior or anterolingual face of main cone of P,. Chromosomal complement of 2n = 30 and FN = 56 reported for Greater Broad-nosed Bat (P. vittatus) might have been based in part on specimens of Alberico’s Broad-nosed Bat. <b>Habitat.</b> Tropical, subtropical, and temperate forests in montane humid and cloud forest at elevations of 450-3220 m (mostly 1000-2000 m). Alberico’s Broad-nosed Bat is found in primary, secondary, altered, and gallery forests and at forest edges near cultivated areas. <b>Food and Feeding.</b> No information but presumably frugivorous. <b>Breeding.</b> In Ecuador and Peru, pregnant Alberico’s Broad-nosed Bats were found in January-March and August and lactating females in March and September—October. In Ecuador, a scrotal male was found in October. These data suggest postpartum estrus and bimodal polyestry. <b>Activity patterns.</b> Alberico’s Broad-nosed Bat is nocturnal. <b>Movements, Home range and Social organization.</b> No information. <b>Status and Conservation.</b> Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. In Bolivia, Alberico’s Broad-nosed Bat has been classified as near threatened due its presence in a highly fragile ecosystem (Yungas). It is fairly common,its conservation status is apparently stable, and it occurs in several protected areas. <b>Bibliography.</b> Baker (1973), Gardner (2008c), Gardner &amp; Carter (1972a, 1972b), Moya &amp; Arteaga (2007), Ramirez-Francel et al. (2018), Tirira (2017), Velazco (2005), Velazco &amp; Gardner (2009).
description: Published as part of <i>Don E. Wilson &amp; Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Phyllostomidae, pp. 444-583 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions</i> on pages 565-566, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6458594