Simmons, Nancy B.
[Author];
Conway, Tenley M. (Tenley Middleton)
[Author]
Phylogenetic relationships of mormoopid bats (Chiroptera, Mormoopidae) based on morphological data. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 258 ; Phylogentic relationships of mormoopid bats. ; Phylogeny of mormoopid bats
You can manage bookmarks using lists, please log in to your user account for this.
Media type:
Text;
E-Book
Title:
Phylogenetic relationships of mormoopid bats (Chiroptera, Mormoopidae) based on morphological data. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 258 ; Phylogentic relationships of mormoopid bats. ; Phylogeny of mormoopid bats
Contributor:
Simmons, Nancy B.
[Author];
Conway, Tenley M. (Tenley Middleton)
[Author]
imprint:
[New York] : American Museum of Natural History, 2001
Footnote:
Diese Datenquelle enthält auch Bestandsnachweise, die nicht zu einem Volltext führen.
Description:
97 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-93). ; Mormoopidae is a small family of Neotropical microchiropteran bats that includes two genera (Mormoops and Pteronotus) and ten species, two of which are known only from fossils. Mormoopidae is typically classified as a member of Noctilionoidea, a group that minimally includes two other Neotropical families (Phyllostomidae and Noctilionidae) and may also include Mystacinidae, a taxon endemic to New Zealand and Australia. Phylogenetic relationships of extant mormoopid species and one extinct taxon, Pteronotus pristinus, were investigated in a series of parsimony analyses of 209 morphological characters including features of the skull, dentition, vomeronasal organ complex and brain, trachea and hyoid apparatus, tongue, face, ears, pelage, patagia, postcranial skeleton, postcranial myology, reproductive tract, and digestive tract. Three extant phyllostomid species, two noctilionids, two mystacinids, and one emballonurid species were included as outgroups to test monophyly of Mormoopidae and to provide a context for determining the sister group of the family. Results of parsimony analyses under a variety of different assumption sets indicate that Mormoopidae is monophyletic, and that Pteronotus and Mormoops are monophyletic sister taxa. Within the genus Pteronotus, several clades were repeatedly recovered: (1) P. davyi + P. gymnonotus (= subgenus Pteronotus); (2) P. macleayi + P. quadridens; (3) P. personatus + P. macleayi + P. quadridens (= subgenus Chilonycteris); (4) P. parnellii + P. pristinus + P. personatus + P. macleayi + P. quadridens; and (5) P. parnellii + P. pristinus (= subgenus Phyllodia). These results support monophyly of all subgenera of Pteronotus previously recognized, and additionally indicate that the subgenera Pteronotus and Chilonycteris are sister taxa. Comprehensive diagnoses for each species and clade of Mormoopidae are provided based on character optimizations and ancillary morphometric data from the literature. Results ...