Title
Análisis morfogeométrico de las especies peruanas de carollia (Chiroptera: phyllostomidae)
Other title
Geomorphometric analyses of the peruvian species of carollia (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
SAREM Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamiferos
Abstract
The genus Carollia comprises eight species, and in spite of their wide distribution and abundance, the knowledge about their morphology and differentiation is still incipient, and several studies have revealed complex intra-and interspecific morphological variation. The objective of this study was to analyze the skull and hemi-mandible variation of the species of Carollia using a morphogeometric approach and to test, in the Peruvian species, if the main reported clades recovered by Velazco (2013) are distinguished morphologically. We analyzed 826 specimens using geometric morphometric approaches on three cranial and one hemimandibular views. The overlapping was performed using Generalized Procrustes Analysis and interspecific variation and morphological groups were tested by statistical analyses. Our results found a wide overlap among the species, but the differences are statistically supported. We found that the ventral view of the skull was the most important view to discriminate between species and that the canonical discriminant analysis recovered two statistically supported morphological groups, congruent with the main clades of the genus (C. brevicauda-C. manu-C. perspicillata versus C. benkeithi-Carollia sp.). Carollia manu is morphologically intermediate between C. perspicillata and C. brevicauda, whereas C. benkeithi and Carollia sp. are almost completely overlapped in the analyzed mor-phospace. We agree with other authors in that size is the main variable that allows to discriminate species.
Start page
419
End page
438
Volume
25
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología del desarrollo
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85061851098
Source
Mastozoologia Neotropical
ISSN of the container
03279383
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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