Abstract
The Estação Biológica Santa Lúcia (EBSL) is one of the oldest reserves in Brazil, used as a research site since 1939 by the naturalist Augusto Ruschi. It is an Atlantic Forest fragment, and its fauna and flora have been studied throughout the years. However, its chiropteran fauna remains virtually unknown. Here, we aim to provide a bat species list for EBSL. We installed mist-nets over 19 nights from mid-2009 to mid-2010, with a sampling effort of 20 875.5 m2.h. We captured 204 specimens, from two families and 22 species. Ecological analysis reveals a medium to high diversity, heavily dominated by frugivorous species. The collector’s curve and the estimative of species richness suggests that the chiropteran fauna at EBSL remains partially unknown, and we encourage further inventories.
Highlights
Bats play an important ecological role in their ecosystems, especially in pollination and seed dispersal, feeding on fruits, insects, nectar, and other vertebrates as well as blood (Fenton et al 1992)
Almost 75% of captures were represented by three species, Carollia perspicillata, Artibeus lituratus and Artibeus fimbriatus
We found seven lactating and one post-lactating female, from the species Carollia perspicillata, Artibeus lituratus, Artibeus fimbriatus and Sturnira tildae
Summary
Bats play an important ecological role in their ecosystems, especially in pollination and seed dispersal, feeding on fruits, insects, nectar, and other vertebrates as well as blood (Fenton et al 1992). Et al 2020; Garbino et al 2020), 83 are known to occur in the state of Espírito Santo (Vela-Ulian et al in press). Knowledge about bats at the Espírito Santo state began with Maximilian Alexander Philip, the Prince zu Wied-Neuwied. He was a German naturalist explorer, one of the many travelling naturalists who came to the Neotropical Region to catalog the biodiversity (Rocha 1971; Kury 2001). Through his efforts, four bats species were known to occur at Espírito Santo (Schinz 1821; WiedNeuwied 1826). The nineteenth century had other collections by naturalists, such as Saint-Hilaire and Castelnaeu, until the 1940s, with 11 bat species for the state: Anoura caudifer, Carollia brevicauda, Carollia perspicillata, Centronycteris maximiliani, Desmodus rotundus, Glossophaga soricina, Myotis nigricans, Phyllostomus hastatus, Platyrrhinus lineatus, Rhynchonycteris naso, and Saccopteryx leptura (Lima 1926; Vieira 1942; Ruschi 1951; Mendes et al 2010)
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