Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Pseudonovibos spiralis (Artiodactyla: Bovidae): new information on this enigmatic South-east Asian ox
(Journal of Zoology (London), 2001-02)Two bovid frontlets with horns collected in 1929 and now housed in the collections of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum (KU) from Suoi Kiet, Binh Tuy Province, Vietnam, were previously identified as koupreys ... -
Tropical dry-forest mammals of Palo Verde: Ecology and conservation in a changing landscape
(University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004-02)More than 114 species of mammals originally were present in Costa Rica’s tropical dry forest, and perhaps 110 species are still found there today. Bats are the most diverse group, with more than 66 species, followed by ... -
Ectophylla alba
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West Indian mammals from the Albert Schwartz Collection: Biological and historical information
(University of Kansas Natural History Museum, 2003-06)In the period 1954-1976, Albert Schwartz and several students working with him made extensive collections of mammals (ca. 2,000 specimens), reptiles and amphibians, birds, and butterflies in the West Indies. Schwartz's ... -
Predation on nestling Bare-throated Tiger-Herons by a Great Black-Hawk
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Tent-making by Artibeus jamaicensis (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae) with comments on plants used by bats for tents
(Biotropica, 1976-12)Four species of bats have been reported to modify leaves of various plants to produce tents for daytime roosts. Herein we report tent-making by a fifth species, Artibeus jamaicensis (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae) In addition ... -
Selection of roost sites by Honduran white bats, Ectophylla alba (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae)
(Ecological Society of America, 1976-04)Ectophylla alba H. Allen (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae), the Honduran white bat, was found to alter the leaves of five species of Heliconia (H. imbricata, H. laptispatha, H. pogonantha, H. tortuosa, and an undescribed ... -
Tent construction by Vampyressa in Costa Rica
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Observations on feeding behavior in the vesper mouse, Nyctomys sumichrasti
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Mammals of the Cosigüina Peninsula of Nicaragua
(Mastozoología Neotropical, 2005-12)Nicaragua’s Cosigüina Peninsula, located at the northwestern tip of the country, is one of the most poorly studied biotic regions in Central America. The peninsula has been occupied for millennia because the climate of ... -
Rediscovery, ecology, and identification of rare free-tailed bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae) in Costa Rica
(Acta Chiropterologica, 2008-06)Five new specimens ofthe poorly known Sanborn's bonneted bat, Eumops hansae (Chiroptera: Molossidae), are reported for Costa Rica's central and northern Pacific lowlands based on a subadult male collected in 1990 and four ... -
Phylogeny of plecotine bats (Chiroptera: “Vespertilionidae”): summary of the evidence and proposal of a logically consistent taxonomy
(American Museum of Natural History, 1992-02)Using standard phylogenetic techniques, 25 transformation series of morphological characters and 11 of karyological characters are evaluated in an attempt to recover the phylogenetic history of plecotine vespertilionid ... -
Annotated checklist of the mammals of Cuzco Amazónico, Peru
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Historical distribution of the extinct tropical seal, Monachus tropicalis (Carnivora: Phocidae)
(Conservation Biology, 1997-04) -
Genus Caenolestes O. Thomas, 1895
(University of Chicago Press, 2008-03) -
Characters and phylogenetic relationships of nectar-feeding bats, with descriptions of new Lonchophylla from western South America (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Lonchophyllini)
(Biological Society of Washington, 2006-12)The Neotropical Lonchophyllini (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) currently comprise four genera and thirteen species of nectar-feeding bats. These species often are separated into larger-bodied (eight species) and smaller-bodied ... -
Rediscovery of Enders’s small-eared shrew, Cryptotis endersi (Insectivora: Soricidae), with a redescription of the species
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In memoriam, James Stephen “Steve” Ashe (1947–2005)
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In memoriam: James S. “Steve” Ashe, 1947–2005
(Kansas (Great Plains) Entomological Society, 2006-04) -
A new species of spiny pocket mouse (Rodentia: Heteromyidae: Heteromys) from northwestern Costa Rica
(American Museum of Natural History, 2006-03)Recent taxonomic works have recognized only two species of spiny pocket mice of the genus Heteromys (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) from Costa Rica. Within Costa Rica, the widespread H. desmarestianus is considered to occur ...