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New Publication on "New Records of Bats in the BVI"

Posted on July 13, 2011

Jean Pierre Bacle and Kevel Lindsay of Island Resources Foundation are co-authors with Gary Kweicienski and Hugh Genoways on a new article about the bats of the British Virgin Islands

 

Check it out download it from our web site at http://www.irf.org/mission/protection/pubs.php

 

here’s the reference and the Abstract from the Caribbean Journal of Science:

 

        “New records of bats from the British Virgin Islands” 

 

by      Gary G.  Kwiecinski -1;  Jean-Pierre  Bacle-2 ;    Kevel C Lindsay-2; and    Hugh H. Genoways-3
1-Biology Department, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510-4625, USA;
2- Island Resources Foundation, 1718 P Street, N.W., #T4, Washington, DC 20036, USA;
3- University of Nebraska State Museum, W436 Nebraska Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0514, USA.

 

   ABSTRACT. — As currently understood the bat fauna of the British Virgin Islands consists of five species –
Noctilio leporinus, Brachyphylla cavernarum, Artibeus jamaicensis, Tadarida brasiliensis , and  Molossus molossus.
Our knowledge of distribution of bats in the British Virgin Islands is far more limited than that in the United States Virgin Islands. As part of ongoing research on the bats of the Virgin Islands, recent brief surveying periods in the British Virgin Islands have produced new records for some islands. Also, our researching of existing museum collections has discovered unreported new records. Our new data adds information for five species of bats from five islands in the British Virgin Islands—Guana, Jost Van Dyke, Mosquito, Norman, and Tortola.
  KEYWORDS. — Chiroptera ,  biodiversity ,  Virgin Islands ,  conservation ,  distribution

 

Caribbean Journal of Science, Vol. 46, No. 1, 64-70, 2010
Copyright 2010 College of Arts and Sciences
University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

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