The taxonomic status of myotis nesopolus larensis (Chiroptera, vespertilionidae) and new insights on the diversity of caribbean myotis

Roberto Leonan M. Novaes; Vinícius C. Cláudio; Roxanne J. Larsen; Don E. Wilson; Marcelo Weksler; Ricardo Moratelli

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1015.59248

The taxonomic status of myotis nesopolus larensis (Chiroptera, vespertilionidae) and new insights on the diversity of caribbean myotis

Roberto Leonan M. Novaes, Vinícius C. Cláudio, Roxanne J. Larsen, Don E. Wilson, Marcelo Weksler, Ricardo Moratelli

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Abstract

Myotis nesopolus currently comprises two subspecies. The nominate subspecies (M. n. nesopolus) occurs on the Caribbean islands of Curaçao and Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles, whereas M. n. larensis is known from mainland South America in northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. Our Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic analyses of cytochrome-b gene sequences recovered M. nesopolus as a paraphyletic group, with M. n. nesopolus and M. n. larensis as non-sister lineages. The haplotype network indicates that these two subspecies do not share any haplotypes and are in different evolutionary trajectories. Addition-ally, these two subspecies can be distinguished on the basis of qualitative and quantitative morphological traits. This pattern supports the recognition of M. nesopolus and M. larensis as full species. Our results also reveal that the assemblage of Caribbean Myotis do not form a monophyletic group. Caribbean species are phylogenetically close to mainland species from northern South America and Central America, suggesting that colonization of Caribbean islands happened multiple times.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	145-167
Number of pages	23
Journal	ZooKeys
Volume	2021
Issue number	1015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1015.59248
State	Published - 2021

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We are grateful to G. Garbino, B. Lim, and C. Carrión-Bonilla for the valuable revision of the original text. Support for RLMN and VCC (Ph.D. scholarships) comes from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, Brazil). RM has received support from National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil), and from the Smithsonian Institution (USA). This paper is part of Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel the Ph.D. requirements of at the Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Funding Information:
We are grateful to G. Garbino, B. Lim, and C. Carri?n-Bonilla for the valuable revision of the original text. Support for RLMN and VCC (Ph.D. scholarships) comes from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, Brazil). RM has received support from National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil), and from the Smithsonian Institution (USA). This paper is part of Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel the Ph.D. requirements of at the Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

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© Roberto L. M. Novaes et al.

Keywords

Bats
Biogeography
Lesser Antilles
Morphology
Morphometry
South America
Taxonomy
Venezuela

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The taxonomic status of myotis nesopolus larensis (Chiroptera, vespertilionidae) and new insights on the diversity of caribbean myotis

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