Short-tailed Bat Carollia Perspicillata Research Articles

Functional skull asymmetries in Carollia perspicillata (Phyllostomidae Gray, 1825: Carollinae)

Analysing asymmetry in wild or domestic species enables the evaluation of the morphological responses to functional requirements and/or stress. This report is a study of the cranial asymmetry of Seba's short-tailed bat Carollia perspicillata by means of geometric morphometric techniques. We studied three types of bilateral asymmetries -fluctuating asymmetry, directional asymmetry and antisymmetry- using 15 skull landmarks on dorsal aspect of 45 skulls of Carollia perspicillata (21 males and 24 females) from different localities in Colombia. Directional asymmetry appeared to be significant and clearly higher than fluctuating asymmetry, with the braincase presenting the larger variance. There were no differences between sexes. Echolocation has a great anatomical effect on the bat cranium, and this would explain detected asymmetry.

Erratum to: Opportunistic predation by Crested Owl Lophostrix cristata upon Seba’s Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata

As shown in figure 1a and b, the owl identified as a Crested Owl Lophostrix cristata (Daudin, 1800) in Rocha & López-Baucells (2014) is indeed a Mottled Owl Strix virgata (Cassin, 1849). Therefore, all results and conclusions in the paper pertaining to L. cristata refer in fact to S. virgata. Both the authors and the Editor in Chief of Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia thank readers for noticing this inconsistency and apologize for this misidentification error.