Defining Species And Species Boundaries In Uroderma (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) With A Description Of A New Species

Occasional Papers of the Museum 325, No. 325: 1-30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15777607 DEFINING SPECIES AND SPECIES BOUNDARIES IN URODERMA (CHIROPTERA: PHYLLOSTOMIDAE) WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES HUGO MANTILLA-MELUK ABSTRACT A new species of Peter’s tent-making bat, genus Uroderma (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), is described from Venezuela’s Cordillera del Caribe and piedmonts of the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes.

Cranial morphology of the new species approaches that of U. magnirostrum, with a notable enlargement of the nasals in the post-orbital region, giving the skull a flatter appearance in lateral profile than typical specimens of U. bilobatum. The new species of Uroderma can be distinguished easily from U. magnirostrum by several discrete skin and cranial characters. Taxonomic affinities among geographic variants of U. bilobatum were assessed through analyses of morphologic, karyotypic, and molecular variation.