Rhogeessa

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Rhogeessa
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Yucatan yellow bat (Rhogeessa aeneus)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Tribe: Antrozoini
Genus: Rhogeessa
H. Allen, 1866
Type species
Rhogeessa tumida
H. Allen, 1866
Species

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Rhogeessa is a genus of bats within the vesper bats family, Vespertilionidae. [1]

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Species

Taxonomy debate

This genus is systematically complex and sometimes controversial. One reason that the genus is complex is because of the species' variable karyotypes: [2]

30 chromosomes 32 chromosomes 34 chromosomes 42 chromosomes 44 chromosomes 52 chromosomes
R. io [3] R. aeneus [4] R. tumida* [5] R. genowaysi [6] [7] R. parvula [8] [9] R. hussoni [3]
R. tumida* [10] -R. velilla [2] -R. tumida* [10]
R. gracilis [11] -----
R. tumida* [10] -----

*Note that R. tumida is listed four times, as individuals have been found with four different karyotypes. This may represent a species complex. [10] [2]

Some have placed Allen's yellow bat into its own genus, Baeodon based on its differences with other members of the genus. [12] However, others argue that as Allen's yellow bat and the slender yellow bat are sister taxa, to exclude only one from Rhogeessa makes it a paraphyletic group. By that logic, either both species need to be included in Rhogeessa, or both need to be placed in Baeodon. [2] A 2008 paper recommended moving the slender yellow bat to the Baeodon genus. [2] Others say that Baeodon should be recognized as a subgenus of Rhogeessa instead of as a separate genus. [9] [13]

References

  1. ↑ Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0 , retrieved 2 October 2009
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Baird, A. B., Hillis, D. M., Patton, J. C., & Bickham, J. W. (2008). Evolutionary history of the genus Rhogeessa (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) as revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences. Journal of Mammalogy, 89(3), 744-754.
  3. 1 2 Genoways, H. H., & Baker, R. J. (1996). A new species of the genus Rhogeessa, with comments on geographic distribution and speciation in the genus.
  4. ↑ Audet, D., Engstrom, M. D., & Fenton, M. B. (1993). Morphology, karyology, and echolocation calls of Rhogeessa (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the Yucatan Peninsula. Journal of Mammalogy, 74(2), 498-502.
  5. ↑ Vonhof, M. J. (2000). Rhogeessa tumida. Mammalian species, 1-3.
  6. ↑ Baker, R. J. (1984). A sympatric cryptic species of mammal: a new species of Rhogeessa (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Systematic Biology, 33(2), 178-183.
  7. ↑ Roots, E. H., & Baker, R. J. (1998). Rhogeessa genowaysi. Mammalian Species, (589), 1-3.
  8. ↑ LaVal-Bugg, R. K. (1973). Systematics of the genus Rhogeessa (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Sistemática del género Rhogeessa (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Occasional Papers, (19), 1-47.
  9. 1 2 Roots, E. H., & Baker, R. J. (2007). Rhogeessa parvula. Mammalian Species, 1-4.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Baker, R. J., Bickham, J. W., & Arnold, M. L. (1985). Chromosomal evolution in Rhogeessa (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae): possible speciation by centric fusions. Evolution, 39(2), 233-243.
  11. ↑ Jones, J. K. (1977). Rhogeessa gracilis. Mammalian Species, (76), 1-2.
  12. ↑ Hoofer, S. R., & Bussche, R. A. V. D. (2003). Molecular phylogenetics of the chiropteran family Vespertilionidae. Acta Chiropterologica, 5(1), 1-63.
  13. ↑ Solari, S. (2019). "Baeodon alleni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019 e.T19679A21989577. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T19679A21989577.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
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