ABSTRACT
Field inventories of small mammals have resulted in the collection of five bat species previously unreported for Guatemala: Trinycteris nicefori (Sanborn 1949), Thyroptera tricolor Spix 1823, Eptesicus brasiliensis (Desmarest, 1819), Myotis thysanodes Miller & Allen 1928, and Eumops glaucinus (Wagner 1843). The range of M. thysanodes is extended 334 km from Chiapas southeastward to Central America. The five new records to Guatemala increase the documented total bat species to 104.
ABSTRACT
Field inventories of small mammals have resulted in the collection of five bat species previously unreported for Guatemala: Trinycteris nicefori (Sanborn 1949), Thyroptera tricolor Spix 1823, Eptesicus brasiliensis (Desmarest, 1819), Myotis thysanodes Miller & Allen 1928, and Eumops glaucinus (Wagner 1843). The range of M. thysanodes is extended 334 km from Chiapas southeastward to Central America. The five new records to Guatemala increase the documented total bat species to 104.
ABSTRACT
Fresh fecal samples from 12 shrews, 10 Cryptotis goodwini Jackson, 1933, and 2 Cryptotis merriami Thomas, 1898, were collected between December 1994 and May 1998; 11 (92%) were positive for eimeriid coccidia, including 8 of 8 C. goodwini and 2 of 2 C. merriami from Honduras and 1 of 2 C. goodwini from Guatemala. Two Eimeria species were found: 1 is consistent with the description of Eimeria whitakeri Upton and McAllister, 1991, and 1 is described in this study as new. Sporulated oocysts of the new species are subspheroidal, 16.8 x 15.7 (14-20 x 15-19) microm, with a length-width (L/W) ratio of 1.1 (1.0-1.2); they lack a micropyle and oocyst residuum, but 1-2 polar granules are always present. Sporocysts are elongate and ovoidal, 8.4 x 6.0 (6-10 x 4.5-7.5) microm, with a L/W ratio of 1.4 (1.2-1.7) and have a Stieda body and sporocyst residuum. This is the 49th Eimeria species described from all Insectivora but only the third from Cryptotis species.