Cuba in Mexico: first record of Phyllops falcatus (Gray, 1839) (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) for Mexico and other new records of bats from Cozumel, Quintana Roo

Noel Anselmo Rivas-Camo; Paulina Abigail Sabido-Villanueva; Carlos Ricardo Peralta-Muñoz; Rodrigo A Medellin

doi:10.3897/zookeys.973.53185

Cuba in Mexico: first record of Phyllops falcatus (Gray, 1839) (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) for Mexico and other new records of bats from Cozumel, Quintana Roo

Zookeys. 2020 Oct 5:973:153-162. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.973.53185. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Noel Anselmo Rivas-Camo¹, Paulina Abigail Sabido-Villanueva¹, Carlos Ricardo Peralta-Muñoz¹, Rodrigo A Medellin²

Affiliations

¹ Centro de Conservación y Educación Ambiental de la Fundación de Parques y Museos de Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Av. Pedro Joaquin Coldwell entre primera sur y Juarez, No. 70, Colonia Centro, C.P. 77600, Cozumel, Quintana Roo, México Centro de Conservación y Educación Ambiental de la Fundación de Parques y Museos de Cozumel Cozumel Mexico.
² Instituto de Ecología, UNAM, Ap. Postal 70-275, Coyoacán, 04510 Ciudad de México, México Instituto de Ecología México Mexico.

Abstract

The first record of Phyllops falcatus (Gray, 1839) in Mexico is documented from the island of Cozumel, Quintana Roo. This species is present in the Antilles, distributed in all the Cuban archipelago, Cayman Islands, and Hispaniola. It is likely that a hurricane moved these bats from Cuba to Cozumel. The Cozumel record extends the distribution more than 200 km west. Two new records from Cozumel of the bats Lasiurus ega and Molossus alvarezi are also provided.

Keywords: Caribbean islands; Cuban archipelago; Yucatan Peninsula; dispersal; hurricanes; range extension.

Noel Anselmo Rivas-Camo, Paulina Abigail Sabido-Villanueva, Carlos Ricardo Peralta-Muñoz, Rodrigo A. Medellin.