OCCASIONAL PAPERS

of the
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
—The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

NUMBER 2APRIL 29, 1971

NOTEWORTHY RECORDS OF BATS FROM
NICARAGUA, WITH A CHECKLIST OF
THE CHIROPTERAN FAUNA OF THE COUNTRY

By

J. Knox Jones, Jr.,[1] James Dale Smith,[2]
Ronald W. Turner[3]

Nicaragua occupies a strategic position in Central America with respect to mammalian distributional patterns, but relatively little has been published concerning the fauna of the country and its zoogeographic relationships. The present paper records information on distribution, variation, and natural history of 40 species of bats from Nicaragua, 14 of which are here recorded for the first time from the country. Appended is a checklist of the chiropteran fauna of Nicaragua in which only primary literature with actual reference to specimens from the republic is cited.

OCCASIONAL PAPERS

of theMUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY—The University of KansasLawrence, Kansas

NOTEWORTHY RECORDS OF BATS FROMNICARAGUA, WITH A CHECKLIST OFTHE CHIROPTERAN FAUNA OF THE COUNTRY

By

J. Knox Jones, Jr.,[1] James Dale Smith,[2]Ronald W. Turner[3]

of the
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
—The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

NOTEWORTHY RECORDS OF BATS FROM
NICARAGUA, WITH A CHECKLIST OF
THE CHIROPTERAN FAUNA OF THE COUNTRY

J. Knox Jones, Jr.,[1] James Dale Smith,[2]
Ronald W. Turner[3]