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A new species of Eumops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from southeastern Brazil and Bolivia

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Eumops is the most speciose and morphologically diverse genus of Neotropical molossid bats presently encompassing 16 species. Here were described a new species in the genus based on three specimens from southeastern Bolivia and Brazil. A combined phylogenetic analysis using Cytochrome b gene sequences and morphological data revealed that the specimens form a sister-group of Eumops perotis + Eumops trumbulli and are 7.9% diverged from E. perotis at Cytochrome b. Three morphological autapomorphies, the shape of rostrum and the position and size of first upper premolar, distinguish new species from E. perotis and E. trumbulli. The combination of morphological and molecular characters justifies the description of a new species.

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  1. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Caixa Postal 3037, CEP 37200-000, Brazil

    Renato Gregorin & Karina Lobão Vasconcellos

  2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Renato Gregorin & Ligiane Martins Moras

  3. Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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  4. Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

    Luis Hernán Acosta, José Luis Poma & Roberto Carlos Paca

  5. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade Biologia e Conservacão Nos Trópicos, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

    Luis Hernán Acosta

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Gregorin, R., Moras, L.M., Acosta, L.H. et al. A new species of Eumops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from southeastern Brazil and Bolivia. Mamm Biol 81, 235–246 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2016.01.002

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