Although Tadarida brasiliensis is one of the most widely distributed species of bats in Argentina, it is nevertheless extremely scarce in Patagonia. We report a second record of T. brasiliensis for Santa Cruz province, which fills a gap in the geographical distribution of this species in that province and is also the third southernmost record for the species and for any molossid bat in the world.Fil: Zapata, Sonia Cristina. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral. Unidad Académica Caleta Olivia. Centro de Investigaciones Puerto Deseado; ArgentinaFil: Procopio, Diego Esteban. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral. Unidad Académica Caleta Olivia. Centro de Investigaciones Puerto Deseado; ArgentinaFil: Morgenthaler, Annick. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral. Unidad Académica Caleta Olivia. Centro de Investigaciones Puerto Deseado; ArgentinaFil: Travaini, Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral. Unidad Académica Caleta Olivia. Centro de Investigaciones Puerto Deseado; Argentin

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Although Tadarida brasiliensis is one of the most widely distributed species of bats in Argentina, it is nevertheless extremely scarce in Patagonia. We report a second record of T. brasiliensis for Santa Cruz province, which fills a gap in the geographical distribution of this species in that province and is also the third southernmost record for the species and for any molossid bat in the world

Zapata, Sonia

Procopio, Diego

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Second record of Tadarida brasiliensis (I. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1824) (Chiroptera, Molossidae) in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

Sonia Zapata

Diego Procopio

Annick Morgenthaler

Alejandro Travaini

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 Check List  |  www.biotaxa.org/cl Volume 11 | Number 6 | Article 1783 1Check List the journal of biodiversity dataSecond record of Tadarida brasiliensis (I. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1824) (Chiroptera, Molossidae) in Santa Cruz Province, ArgentinaSonia C. Zapata1*, Diego E. Procopio1, Annick Morgenthaler1 and Alejandro Travaini1, 21 Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Centro de Investigaciones de Puerto Deseado, Instituto de Ciencias del Ambiente, Sustentabilidad y Recursos Naturales. Av. Prefectura Navl s/n, (9050). Puerto Deseado, SC, Argentina2  Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)* Corresponding author: E-mail: titinazapata@yahoo.com.arAbstract: Although Tadarida brasiliensis is one of the most widely distributed species of bats in Argentina, it is nevertheless extremely scarce in Patagonia. We report a second record of T. brasiliensis for Santa Cruz province, which fills a gap in the geographical distribution of this species in that province and is also the third southernmost record for the species and for any molossid bat in the world.Key words: Argentine Patagonia, new record, southern distribution, MolossidaeMolossid bats are widely distributed throughout the world (Simmons 2005); they are especially diverse in tropical and subtropical regions and are considered “tropical bats”, although they can penetrate temperate zones in Europe as well as in the Americas (Barquez et al. 1999, 2013; Simmons 2005). Species from the genus Tadarida can reach high latitudes, including both the northernmost known record for molossid bats: Tadarida teniotis (46° N; Arlettaz et al. 2000) and the southern-most one Tadarida brasiliensis (52° S; Barquezet al. 2013). This last species is common and abundant in tropical regions, where they form colonies with millions of in-dividuals. It occurs throughout most of the Western Hemisphere and is widely distributed in South America (Barquezet al. 1999). In Argentina, T. brasiliensis is also one of the most widely distributed species and is known from numerous records (Barquez et al. 1999). Never-theless, records from Patagonia are extremely scarce not only due to the species’responses to latitudinal ef-fects but also for the lack of bats studies in Patagonia (Nabteet al. 2011; Giménez et al. 2012; Barquezet al. 2013). Recently, a specimen of T. brasiliensis has been re-ported for the first time for Santa Cruz, in the Argentine Patagonia (Barquezet al. 2013), which constitutes the southernmost record for this species. Here we report a new locality record for T. brasiliensis in Santa Cruz prov-ince, constituting the third southernmost record for the species and for any molossid bat in the world.A living adult male specimen of T. brasiliensis was found on 31 March 2015 hanging from the alarm sensor inside the livingroom of a house in the city of Puerto Deseado, located on the Atlantic coast (47°45ʹ15ʺ S, 065°54ʹ01ʺ W) (Figures 1 and 2). The area belongs to the Patagonian Phytogeographical Province (sensu León et al. 1998). It is a flat steppe of shrubs and grass inter-rupted by ravines, dominant tussock grass species are Check List 11(6): 1783, 1 November 2015 doi:  http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/11.6.1783ISSN 1809-127X © 2015 Check List and Authors61117831 November 2015Figure 1. Adult male Tadarida brasiliensis found hanging from an alarm sensor inside a house in Puerto Deseado, southern Patagonia.Notes oN GeoGraphic DistributioN Check List  |  www.biotaxa.org/cl Volume 11 | Number 6 | Article 1783 2Zapata et al.  |  Record of Tadarida brasiliensis Chiroptera, Molossidae in southern Patagonia, ArgentinaThe specimen presented all the diagnostic features listed for T. brasiliensis (Wilkins 1989; Barquez et al. 1999): distal half of the tail extending freely beyond the uropatagium, ears with parallel furrows on the internal surface separated by a small space not extending beyond the tip of the snout when laid forward; tragus blunt and short; lips with deep folds and grooves; rostrum short; length of forearm 41 to 46 mm (Figure 3). External measurements for the captured specimen were taken with a dial caliper (precision = 0.1 mm): total length = 92.0 mm; tail length = 30.4 mm; ear length = 10.8 mm; hind foot length = 8.5 mm; forearm length = 42.3 mm; body weight 11.5 (g). All the measurements fall inside the ranges for the species in Argentina (Barquez et al. 1999).This new record of Tadarida brasiliensis is the second for the species for Santa Cruz province, and fills a distributional gap between those recorded at Rada Tilly (Chubut province, 300 km north of Puerto Deseado; Nabte et al. 2011) and Cabo Vírgenes (Santa Cruz province, 700 km south of Puerto Deseado; Barquez et al. 2013) (Figure 2). It is also the third southernmost record for the species and for any molossid bat in the world, after the reports of Hill (1988) for Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands) and Barquez et al. (2013) (Figure 2). Records of T. brasiliensis for southern continental Patagonia have been reported for the first time only in recent years. Large scale studies are necessary to Stipa spp.; and the dominant shrub species are Nas sauvia glomerulosa, Chuquirga aurea, Acantholippia seriphiodes, Lyc i umchilense, Azorellaca espitosa, Mulinum spinosum, Mulgaraea tridens, Colligua jaintegerrima, Senecio filagin­oides, Prosopis denudans,and Berberis heterophilla (León et al. 1998).At the laboratory of the Centro de Investigaciones de Puerto Deseado (UNPA-UACO) the specimen was weighed, sexed, and measured; later it was released during the evening. The specimen was considered an adult since it did not have cartilage streaks in the metacarpalia and phalanx articulations (Anthony 1988).Figure 2. New locality record (indicated with a yellow star) for Tadarida brasiliensis in Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz, Argentina; nearest localities are indicated with red circles and numbers: 1: Islas Malvinas, 2: CaboVírgenes, 3: Rada Tilly. Figure 3. Dorso-lateral view of the adult male of Tadarida brasiliensis from Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz, Argentina. Check List  |  www.biotaxa.org/cl Volume 11 | Number 6 | Article 1783 3Zapata et al.  |  Record of Tadarida brasiliensis Chiroptera, Molossidae in southern Patagonia, Argentinaevaluate the current distribution of this species in Santa Cruz province as a base for its conservation in these arid lands.LITERATURE CITEDAnthony, E.L.P. 1988. Age determination in bats; pp. 47–58, in: T.H. Kunz (ed.). Ecological and behavioral methods for the study of bats.Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.Arlettaz, R.L., C. Ruchet, J. Aeschimann, E. Brun, M. Genoud and P. Vogel. 2000. Physiological traits affecting the distribution and wintering strategy of the bat Tadarida teniotis. Ecology 81: 1004–1014. doi: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1004:PTATDA]2.0.CO;2Barquez, R.M., M.A. Mares and J.K. Braun. 1999. The bats of Argen-tina. Special publications, Museum of Texas Tech University 42: 1–275.Barquez, R.M., M.N. Carbajal, M. Failla and M.M. Díaz. 2013. New distributional records for bats of the Argentine Patagonia and the southernmost known record for a molossid bat in the world. Mammalia 77: 119–126. doi: 10.1515/mammalia-2012-0053Giménez, A.L, N.P. Giannini, M.I. Schiaffini and G.M. Martin. 2012. New records of the rare Histiotus magellanicus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and other bats from Central Patagonia, Argentina. Mastozoología Neotropical 19: 213–224. http://ref.scielo.org/5xbnxfHill, J.E. 1988. A bat from the Falkland Islands. Bat News 15: 1–16.León, R.J.C., D. Bran, M. Collantes, J.M. Paruelo and A. Soriano. 1998. Grandes unidades de vegetación de la Patagonia extra andina. Ecología Austral 8(2): 125–144.Nabte, M.J., A. Andrade, A. Monjeau, J.L. Hernandez, D. Vaquero and S.L. Saba. 2011. Mammalia, Chiroptera, Molossidae, Tadaridabrasiliensis I. Geoffroy, 1824: distribution extension. Check List 7: 142–143. http://www.checklist.org.br/getpdf?NGD126-10Simmons, N.B. 2005. Order Chiroptera; pp. 312–529, in: D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder (eds.). Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Third Edition, Volume 1. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.Wilkins, K.T. 1989. Tadarida brasiliensis. Mammalian Species 331: 1–10.Authors’ contribution statement: SZ, DP, AM and AT collected the specimen in SZ and AT’s house, as well as took measurements and photos in the lab; AM released the bat; DP prepared the Figure 2; SZ wrote the text and all authors revised it.Received: 24 April 2015Accepted: 4 June 2015Academic editor: Paúl M. Velazco

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Although Tadarida brasiliensis is one of the most widely distributed species of bats in Argentina, it is nevertheless extremely scarce in Patagonia. We report a second record of T. brasiliensis for Santa Cruz province, which fills a gap in the geographical distribution of this species in that province and is also the third southernmost record for the species and for any molossid bat in the world.</jats:p

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