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Balantiopteryx infusca (Thomas, 1897:546)

Brown sac-wing bat, Ecuadorian sac-winged bat

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Saccopteryx infusca Thomas, 1897 (basionym)

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 5 January 1897

Rediscovered on 25 December 1991

 

IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable

 

Distribution

Esmeraldas, Ecuador

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Thomas, O. (1897). Descriptions of new bats and rodents from America. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 20: 544-553.

 

Other references:

Alberico, M., Cadena, A., Hernández-Camacho, J. and Muñoz-Saba, Y. 2000. Mamíferos (Synapsida: Theria) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 1(1): 43-75.

Albuja-V, L. 1999. Murcielagos del Ecuador. Cicetronica Cia, Quito, Ecuador.

Álvarez, M.D. 2002. Illicit crops and bird conservation priorities in Colombia. Conservation Biology 164(4): 1086-1096.

Álvarez, M.D. 2003. Forests in the time of violence: conservation implications of the Colombian war. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 16(3/4): 49-70.

Arroyo-Cabrales, J. and J. K. Jones, Jr. (1988). Balantiopteryx io and Balantiopteryx infusca. Mammalian Species 313: 1-3.

Baillie, Jonathan and Groombridge, Brian. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 448 pp.

Bonaccorso, Frank. (2019). Emballonuridae, pp. 350-373. In: Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions.

Castaño-Salazar, John Harold and Cárdenas-Mosquera, Blas Antonio. (2020). New distribution record of the brown sac-wing bat Balantiopteryx infusca in Colombia / Nuevo registro de distribución del murciélago café de sacos alares Balantiopteryx infusca en Colombia. Therya Notes 1 (1): 82-85.

Dávalos, L. Burneo, S. and Lim, B. (2008). Balantiopteryx infusca. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 02 March 2013.

Emmons, L.H. and Feer, F. 1997. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide, Second edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA.

Fisher, Diana O. (2011). Trajectories from extinction: where are missing mammals rediscovered? Global Ecology & Biogeography 20: 415-425. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00624.x [Appendix S1]

Hill, J. E. (1986). A note on Balantiopteryx infusca (Thomas, 1897) (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae). Mammalia 50: 558-560.

Hood, C. and Gardner, A.L. 2008. Family Emballonuridae Gervais, 1856. In: A.L. Gardner (ed.), Mammals of South America. Vol. 1, pp. 188-207. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Carlos Ibáñez, Javier Juste, Ricardo López-Wilchis, Luis Albuja V. and Arturo Núñez-Garduño. (2002). Echolocation of three species of Sac-winged bats (Balantiopteryx). Journal of Mammalogy 83(4): 1049-1057. [Abstract]

McCarthy, Timothy J., Albuja, Luis and Manzano, Ivan. (2000). Rediscovery of the Brown Sac-wing bat, Balantiopteryx infusca (Thomas, 1897), in Ecuador. Journal of Mammalogy 81(4): 958-961. [Abstract]

Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]

Simmons, N.B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. In: D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 312-529. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Simmons, Nancy B. and Cirranello, A. L. (2023). Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. Version 1.3. Accessed on 06/18/2023.

Tirira, D. (2015). Balantiopteryx infusca. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T2531A22029804. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T2531A22029804.en. Downloaded on 22 March 2016.

Velandia-Perilla, Jorge Horacio et al. (2021). New Record of the Brown Sac-Wing Bat, Balantiopteryx infusca (Chiroptera, Emballonuridae) in Colombia. Mammalogy Notes 7(1): 194. https://doi.org/10.47603/mano.v7n1.194

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/6481/ecuadorian-sac-winged-bat

 

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