Gnome fruit-eating bat

The gnome fruit-eating bat (Dermanura gnoma) is a bat species from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. This species was originally discovered to be different from the other known species of fruit bats, but later, in 1994 were mistakenly grouped under Artibeus cinereus as a synonym.[2] However, this has since been corrected by more closely studying their physical differences and by biomolecular analysis.[3][4][5]

Gnome fruit-eating bat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Phyllostomidae
Genus:	Dermanura
Species:	D. gnoma
Binomial name
Dermanura gnoma Handley, 1987
Synonyms
Artibeus gnomus

References

1. Solari, S. (2015). "Dermanura gnoma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015. e.T2129A97207684. doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T2129A21997242.en. Downloaded on 18 February 2020.
2. Koopman, K.F. (1994). Chiroptera: systematics. Handbook of zoology: a natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom VIII. New York, USA: Walter de Gruyter.
3. Solari, S.; Hoofer, SR.; Larsen, P.A.; Brown, A.D.; Bull, R.J.; Guerrero, J.A.; Ortega, J.; Carrera, J.P.; Bradley, R.D. & Baker, R.J. (2009). "Operational Criteria for Genetically Defined Species: Analysis of the Diversification of the Small Fruit-Eating Bats, Dermanura (Phyllostomidae: Stenodermatinae)". Acta Chiropterologica. 11 (2): 279–288. doi:10.3161/150811009X485521. S2CID 15355333.
4. Simmons, N.B. (2005). Mammal Species of the World. Baltimore, MD, USA.: The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 312–529.
5. Hoofer, S.R.; Solari, S.; Larsen, P.A.; Bradley, R.D. & Baker, R.J. (2008). "Phylogenetics of the fruit-eating bats (Phyllostomidae: Artibeina) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences". Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University. 272: 1–15.

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