First record of albinism in Artibeus obscurus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in an Atlantic Forest area

Maria L. Ventorin; Bruna M. Dell'Antonio; João Paulo M. Hoppe; Albert D. Ditchfield

doi:10.31687/saremNMS.21.1.2

Autores/as

Maria L. Ventorin Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Bruna M. Dell'Antonio Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil.
João Paulo M. Hoppe Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Albert D. Ditchfield Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31687/saremNMS.21.1.2

Palabras clave:

albinism, Atlantic forest, bats, Brazil, Phyllostomidae

Resumen

Albinism is a congenital disorder that provokes the total loss of body pigmentation. Until this study, 149 cases of albinism distributed in 11 families and 61 species have been recorded in the order Chiroptera throughout the world. Herein, we report the first case of albinism for the dark fruit-eating bat, Artibeus obscurus (Schinz, 1821), a Neotropical frugivorous species. The individual, an adult male reproductively active, was captured in a mist-net in an Atlantic Forest coastal fragment at the Espírito Santo state, southeast Brazil. We also review cases of albinism in bats.

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