: Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the Country by Jones J Knox Smith James Dale Turner Ronald W - Bats Nicaragua Animal; Animals-Wild-Mammals

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OCCASIONAL PAPERS

of the MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY --The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas

NUMBER 2 APRIL 29, 1971

NOTEWORTHY RECORDS OF BATS FROM NICARAGUA, WITH A CHECKLIST OF THE CHIROPTERAN FAUNA OF THE COUNTRY

J. KNOX JONES, JR., JAMES DALE SMITH, RONALD W. TURNER

Nicaragua occupies a strategic position in Central America with respect to mammalian distributional patterns, but relatively little has been published concerning the fauna of the country and its zoogeographic relationships. The present paper records information on distribution, variation, and natural history of 40 species of bats from Nicaragua, 14 of which are here recorded for the first time from the country. Appended is a checklist of the chiropteran fauna of Nicaragua in which only primary literature with actual reference to specimens from the republic is cited.

The specimens upon which this report is based are, with few exceptions, in the collections of the Museum of Natural History of The University of Kansas. Some of our material was obtained in 1956 by J. R. and A. A. Alcorn, field representatives of the Museum and sponsored by the Kansas University Endowment Association; most of the specimens, however, were obtained by field parties of which we were members that worked in Nicaragua in 1964, 1966, 1967, and 1968 under the aegis of a contract between the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command and The University of Kansas. Place-names associated with localities mentioned in the text from which specimens at Kansas were collected are plotted on Fig. 1.

Curator, Division of Mammals, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, California State College, Fullerton, California.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, St. Benedicts College, Atchison, Kansas.

In the accounts that follow, departments in Nicaragua are listed alphabetically, but localities within each department are arranged from north to south; elevations are given in meters or feet, depending on which was used on specimen labels. All specimens are in the Museum of Natural History of The University of Kansas unless noted otherwise. We are indebted to Drs. Charles O. Handley, Jr., and Ronald Pine of the U.S. National Museum for lending us certain critical specimens.

ACCOUNTS OF SPECIES

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