Vampyressa elisabethae Tavares 2014
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Vampyressa
Vampyressa elisabethae

description: 157. Kalko’s Yellow-eared Bat <i>Vampyressa elisabethae</i> <b>French:</b> Vampyresse d'Elisabeth / <b>German:</b> Kalko-Gelbohrfledermaus / <b>Spanish:</b> Vampiresa de Kalko <b>Other common names:</b> Elisabeth's Yellow-eared Bat <b>Taxonomy.</b> Vampyressa elisabethae Tavares et al., 2014, “evergreen forests of Rancho Mojica, upper Changena River, + 20 miles [= 32- 2 km] SSW of Changuinola (9°6’ N, 82°34’ W; 1463 m), Provincia Bocas del Toro, Panama.” This restricted definition of Vampyressa resulted from molecular and morphological analyses that excluded three species that are now In Vampyriscus. Monotypic. <b>Distribution.</b> Restricted to upper Changena River region, Bocas del Toro Province, W Panama. <b>Descriptive notes.</b> Head-body 53-58 mm (tailless), ear 16-16 mm, hindfoot 9-3— 10-9 mm, forearm 36-2-37-8 mm. No specific data are available for body weight. Greatest lengths of skulls are 22-9-23 mm. Kalko’s Yellow-eared Bat appears similar in many external characteristics to the larger species, Melissa's Yellow-eared Bat (V. melissa) and the Quechuan Yellow-eared Bat (V. sinchi), but it has distinctive skull and dental char acteristics. Dorsalfur is pale ocher and yellowish brown to beige, and ventralfuris not much different. More than one-half of forearm, plagiopatagium, and propatagium alongside body is hairy. Uropatagium and hindlimbs are a little hairy except for ventral midline of uropatagium. Distal border of uropatagium lacks fringe, which distinguishes it from all other species of Vampyressa. Fifth metacarpalis longer than third and fourth. Skull is long and narrow, and rostrum has almost parallel sides. Rostrum aligns with braincase, and anterior premaxilla is vertically oriented. Ventral margin of narial openings is U-shaped and lacks median pit. Anterior margin of mesethmoid plate is swollen and thick. Palate is straight and not domed. There is an orbitosphenoid fissure, and basioccipital pit is shallow. Dentary is dorso-ventrally narrow and has low coronoid process and small articular process that is close to the small angular process. Dental formulais12/2,C1/1,P 2/2, M 2/2 (x2) = 28. I' are unevenly bilobed, and I? are smaller. There is a small cusp on posterolabial part of P,. M,is absent. <b>Habitat.</b> Evergreen forests at elevations above 1400 m. <b>Food and Feeding.</b> There is no specific information available for Kalko’s Yellow-eared Bat, but skull and dentition suggestit is frugivorous, similar to congeners. <b>Breeding.</b> No information. <b>Activity patterns.</b> No information. <b>Movements, Home range and Social organization.</b> No information. <b>Status and Conservation.</b> Not assessed on The IUCN Red List. Kalko’s Yellow-eared Batis rare and restricted to a few locations in Bocas del Toro, Panama. It has not been found in the wild since the late 1970s and could be extinct. <b>Bibliography.</b> Arroyo-Cabrales (2008b), Handley (1966b), Hoofer &amp; Baker (2006), Tavares (2008), Tavares et al. (2014).
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 page 558, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6458594