Journal
MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY
Volume 90, Issue -, Pages 10-21Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2018.01.008
Keywords
Molossidae; New species; Phylogenetics; South America; Taxonomy
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- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (Capes) [9 99999.011880/2013-09]
- Royal Ontario Museum
- Ecuambiente Consulting Group
- Conservation International
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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We describe a new species of mastiff bat in the genus Molossus (Molossidae), which was previously confused with the common and widely distributed M. molossus, from Guyana and Ecuador based on morphological and molecular differences. It is diagnosed by the following set of morphological characteristics: bicolored dorsal pelage, rounded anterior arch of the atlas, triangular occipital bone, and smaller body and skull size. In a molecular phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, maximum likelihood and parsimony trees recovered eight clades in the genus and a polyphyletic relationship for the M. molossus species complex. The new species was recovered in a well-supported Glade that can be genetically distinguished from other species in the genus by its high level of sequence divergence based on the mitochondrial COl gene (8.0-10.1%) and on the nuclear gene beta fibrinogen (1.0-3.1%). It is broadly sympatric with M. molossus sensu stricto in northern South America, but morphologically distinct and genetically divergent. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH on behalf of Deutsche Gesellschaft far Saugetierkunde.
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