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ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
Volume 159, Issue 3, Pages 785-812Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00610.x
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Neotropics; bats; geometric morphometrics; molecular; morphology
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- Pritzker Foundation
- American Society of Mammalogists
- Ellen Thorne Smith Fund
- Barbara E. Brown Fund for Mammal Research
- Lester Armour Graduate Fellowship
- Smithsonian Institution
- Ernest Mayr Travel Grant in Animal Systematics
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0949859] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Platyrrhinus is a diverse genus of small to large phyllostomid bats characterized by a comparatively narrow uropatagium thickly fringed with hair, a white dorsal stripe, comparatively large inner upper incisors that are convergent at the tips, and three upper and three lower molars. Eighteen species are currently recognized, the majority occurring in the Andes. Molecular, morphological, and morphometric analyses of specimens formerly identified as Platyrrhinus helleri support recognition of Platyrrhinus incarum as a separate species and reveal the presence of two species from western and northern South America that we describe herein as new (Platyrrhinus angustirostris sp. nov. from eastern Colombia and Ecuador, north-eastern Peru, and Venezuela and Platyrrhinus fusciventris sp. nov. from Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, northern Brazil, eastern Ecuador, and southern Venezuela). These two new species are sister taxa and, in turn, sister to Platyrrhinus incarum. (C) 2010 The Linnean Society of London, Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 2010, 159, 785-812. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00610.x
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