De Vivo's disk-winged bat (''Thyroptera devivoi'') is a species of disc-winged bat found in

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the souther ...

Taxonomy and etymology

It was described as a new species in 2006, the fourth species to be described in the disc-winged bat genus and family. The

holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of seve ...

used to describe the species was collected in 2000 near

Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica Serra Geral do Tocantins) is an ecological station in the states of Bahia and Tocantins, Brazil. It is one of the largest such units in the country, and protects a sparsely pop ...

in Brazil. It is possible that the currently-described species is a

species complex In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each oth ...

that may face further taxonomic revision; it could undergo a taxonomic split with the description of a second species. The

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for the

species name In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bo ...

"devivoi" is Mario de Vivo; the authors of the 2006 paper chose to honor him with the species name because he "has been responsible for a considerable increase in the understanding of both mammal diversity and systematics in Brazil."

Description

The bat's head and body length is . It has a forearm length of and a tail long. Its fur is cinnamon brown, with the ventral fur appearing frosted.

Range and habitat

It is known from two countries in South America: Guyana and

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. It is known from the

Cerrado The ''Cerrado'' (, ) is a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil, particularly in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Minas Gerais, and the Federal District. The core areas of the Cerrado biome are ...

of Brazil and other

savanna A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to ...

ecosystems. In 2015, the species was recorded in Colombia for the first time.

Conservation

It is currently evaluated as

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by the IUCN. It is a recently described species, and little is known about its range, population size and trend, ecology, or threats. As of 2015, it was only known from four specimens.

References

{{taxonbar, from=Q2669173 Thyropteridae Bats of South America Bats of Brazil Mammals of Guyana Mammals described in 2006