The Colombian bonneted bat (''Eumops trumbulli''), also known as Trumbull's bonneted bat, is a bat species found in

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, Brazil,

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

, French Guiana,

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, Peru,

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and Venezuela.

Taxonomy and etymology

It was described as a new species in 1901 by British naturalist

Oldfield Thomas Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (21 February 1858 – 16 June 1929) was a British zoologist. Career Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and subspecies for the first time. He was appoin ...

. Thomas initially placed it in the genus '' Promops'', naming it ''Promops trumbulli''. Thomas named it after Dr. J. Trumbull, who collected the holotype in May 1898 in Pará, Brazil. In 1906, Miller placed the species in his newly-coined genus ''

Eumops ''Eumops'' (mastiff bats or bonneted bats) is a genus of bat Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.''cheir'', "hand" and πτερόν''pteron'', "wing". With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true ...

'', where it has remained. In 1932, Sanborn considered it a

subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

of the western mastiff bat, reclassifying it as ''Eumops perotis trumbulli''. However, in 1977, Eger considered the Colombian bonneted bat a full species.

Description

It is one of the larger members of its genus. It has a dental formula of for a total of 30 teeth. In his initial description, Thomas wrote that it was similar in appearance to the western mastiff bat, but with smaller ears, smaller

tragi The tragus is a small pointed eminence of the external ear, situated in front of the concha, and projecting backward over the meatus. It also is the name of hair growing at the entrance of the ear. Its name comes the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'g ...

, and lighter teeth. Its tragi are small and squarish—about as wide as they are tall.

Conservation

It is currently evaluated as least concern by the

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—its lowest conservation priority. It meets the criteria for this assessment because of its large geographic range, presumably large population, and the fact that it is unlikely to be in rapid decline.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1831565 Eumops Bats of South America Mammals of Bolivia Bats of Brazil Mammals of Colombia Mammals of French Guiana Mammals of Guyana Mammals of Peru Mammals of Suriname Mammals of Venezuela Mammals described in 1901 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas