Baxi, Kosha

Griffiths, Faculty Advisor, Thomas

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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUJohn Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference 2001, 12th Annual JWP ConferenceApr 21st, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PMSystematic Relationships of Natalid and FuripteridBats, Based on Hyoid Morphology (Chiroptera:Natalidae and Furipteridae)Kosha BaxiIllinois Wesleyan UniversityThomas Griffiths, Faculty AdvisorIllinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprcThis Event is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Kosha Baxi and Thomas Griffiths, Faculty Advisor, "Systematic Relationships of Natalid and Furipterid Bats, Based onHyoid Morphology (Chiroptera: Natalidae and Furipteridae)" (April 21, 2001). John Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference. Paper 2.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2001/oralpres2/2THE JOHN WESLEY POWELL STIJDENT RESEARCH OONEERENCE · APRil 2001 Oral Presentation 2.3 SYSTEMATIC RELATIONSIDPS OF NATALID AND FURIPTERID BATS, BASED ON HYOID MORPHOLOGY (CIDROPTERA: NATALIDAE AND FURIPTERIDAE) Kosha Baxi and Thomas Griffiths* Department of Biology, illinois Wesleyan University The musculature of the hyoid region of two species of bats (Order Chiroptera) from two separate families, Natalidae and Furipteridae, was examined via microscopic dissection. Different morphological characters were scored and then entered into the computer program PAUP (Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony), along with characters of families previously examined by Griffiths. A cladogram was generated. The analysis revealed support for the placement of N atalidae and Furipteridae together within the Superfamily N ataloidea, along with the families Thyropteridae and Myzopodidae. This grouping of Myzopodidae is quite surprising from a geographical standpoint. Myzopodids are endemic only to Madagascar, while thyropterids, natalids and furipterids are found in Central America and northern South America. Thus, the placement of Myzopodidae with the other three geographically close families implies that all four of these families share an unknown common ancestor in Africa. 

Systematic Relationships of Natalid and Furipterid Bats, Based on Hyoid Morphology (Chiroptera: Natalidae and Furipteridae)

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Systematic Relationships of Natalid and Furipterid Bats, Based on Hyoid Morphology (Chiroptera: Natalidae and Furipteridae)

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