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Taxonomic re-evaluation of New World Eptesicus and Histiotus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), with the description of a new genus
Cláudio, Vinícius C; Novaes, Roberto L. M; Gardner, Alfred L; Nogueira, Marcelo R; Wilson, Don E; Maldonado, Jesús E; Oliveira, João A; Moratelli, Ricardo.
Afiliação
  • Cláudio, Vinícius C; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Instituto de Biologia. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva. Rio de Janeiro. BR
  • Novaes, Roberto L. M; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Instituto de Biologia. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva. Rio de Janeiro. BR
  • Gardner, Alfred L; National Museum of Natural History. Division of Mammals. Washington. US
  • Nogueira, Marcelo R; Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro. Departamento de Biologia Animal. Seropédica. BR
  • Wilson, Don E; National Museum of Natural History. Division of Mammals. Washington. US
  • Maldonado, Jesús E; Smithsonian National Zoological Park. Center for Conservation Genomics. Washington. US
  • Oliveira, João A; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Museu Nacional. Departamento de Vertebrados. Rio de Janeiro. BR
  • Moratelli, Ricardo; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Fiocruz Mata Atlântica. Rio de Janeiro. BR
Zoologia (Curitiba, Impr.) ; 40: e22029, 2023. tab, graf, ilus
Article em En | VETINDEX | ID: biblio-1450613
Biblioteca responsável: BR68.1
Localização: BR68.1
ABSTRACT
Eptesicus Rafinesque, 1820 is widely distributed in the Old and New World (26 species), and Histiotus Gervais, 1856 is a South American endemic (11 species). Molecular phylogenies have recovered Eptesicus (sensu lato) as polyphyletic, with New World Eptesicus and the sister genus Histiotus in a paraphyletic American clade sister to Old World Eptesicus. Based on these phylogenetic reconstructions, authors have treated Histiotus as either a subgenus of Eptesicus or restricted Eptesicus to the New World species, treating Histiotus as a full genus, and using the name Cnephaeus Kaup, 1829 at the generic rank to comprise Old World Eptesicus. Based on recently published molecular studies, and on novel qualitative and quantitative morphological comparisons of representatives of Histiotus and New and Old World Eptesicus, we provide evidence for restricting the name Eptesicus to the species E. fuscus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1796) and E. guadeloupensis Genoways & Baker, 1975, allocating the remaining New World species under a new genus, keeping Histiotus as a full genus, and raising Cnephaeus to generic rank to comprise all Old World taxa currently under Eptesicus. This arrangement resolves the paraphyly of New World Eptesicus, and promotes taxonomic stability for Histiotus, which is a well-established genus of easily recognizable Neotropical bats and treated separate from Eptesicus by most authorities.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: VETINDEX Idioma: En Revista: Zoologia (Curitiba, Impr.) Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: VETINDEX Idioma: En Revista: Zoologia (Curitiba, Impr.) Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article