Carollia Gray, 1838. Mag. Zool. Bot. 2: 488.
Carollia braziliensis Gray, 1838 (= Vespertilio perspicillata Linnaeus, 1758)
Carollia benkeithi Solari & Baker, 2006.
Occas. Pap. Mus. Texas Tech Univ. 254: 5.
Ben Keith's Short-tailed Bat
Carollia brevicauda (Schinz, 1821).
Das Thierreich 1: 164.
Silky Short-tailed Bat
Carollia castanea H. Allen, 1890.
Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 28: 19.
Chestnut Short-tailed Bat
Costa Rica, Angostura
E Guatemala to Peru, Venezuela, and Guyana
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Least Concern (2016).
References:
Allen, H.A. 1890. Description of a new species of Carollia and remarks on Carollia brevicauda. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 28(1890): 19-26. Read article.
Hoffmann, F.G., and R.J. Baker. 2003. Comparative phylogeography of short-tailed fruit bats (Carollia: Phyllostomidae). Molecular Ecology 12: 3403-3414. Read abstract.
Jarrín-V, P., C. Flores, and J. Salcedo. 2010. Morphological variation in the short-tailed fruit bat (Carollia) in Ecuador, with comments on the practical and philosophical aspects of boundaries among species. Integrative Zoology 53(3): 226-240. Read abstract.
López-Aguirre, C., J. Pérez-Torres, and L.A.B. Wilson. 2015. Cranial and mandibular shape variation in the genus Carollia (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Colombia: biogeographic patterns and morphological modularity. PeerJ Life and Environment 3: e1197. Read article.
McLellan, L.J. and K.F. Koopman 2008 [dated 2007]. Subfamily Carolliinae. Pages 208-216 In A.L. Gardner (eds.) The Mammals of South America, Volume I. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Read synopsis.
Pine, R.H. 1972. The bats of the genus Carollia. Technical Monograph, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas A and M University 8: 1-125. Not available online.
Solari, S., and R.J. Baker. 2006. Mitochondrial DNA sequence, karyotypic, and morphological variation in the Carollia castanea species complex (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) with description of a new species. Occasional Papers. The Museum of Texas Tech University 254: 1-16. Read article.
Velazco, P.M. 2013. On the phylogenetic position of Carollia manu Pacheco et al., 2004 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Carolliinae). Zootaxa 3718(3): 267-276. Read abstract.
Zurc, D.M., and P.M. Velazco. 2010. Morphological and morphometric analyses of Carollia colombiana Cuartas et al. 2001 and C. monohernandezi Munoz et al. 2004 (Phyllostomidae: Carollinae) in Colombia . Chiroptera Neotropical 16(1): 567-572. Read abstract.
Carollia manu Pacheco, Solari & Velazco, 2004.
Occas. Pap. Mus. Texas Tech Univ. 236: 3.
Manu Short-tailed Bat
Carollia monohernandezi Muñoz, Cuartas & González, 2004.
Actual. Biol. 26(80): 81.
Hernández-Camacho's Short-tailed Bat
Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758).
Syst. Nat., 10th ed. 1: 31.
Seba's Short-tailed Bat
Carollia sowelli Baker, Solari & Hoffmann, 2002.
Occ. Pap. Mus. Texas Tech. Univ. 217: 4.
Sowell's Short-tailed Bat
Carollia subrufa (Hahn, 1905).
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 18: 247.
Gray Short-tailed Bat
Does not include colombiana, which is a synonym of brevicauda; see Zurc and Velazco (2010). Identified as a species complex by Hoffman and Baker (2003), with specimens from much of the southern part of the range described as a new species, benkeithi, by Solari and Baker (2006). Two clades of castanea have been consistently recovered (e.g., castanea a and castanea b of Velazco, 2013) and the species as we recognize it here should be split. However, the distributional limits of the two clades within castanea overlap and it is not clear which clade should bear the name castanea; see Velazco (2013). The type locality ("Costa Rica") was restricted by Pine (1972). See also McLellan and Koopman (2008), Jarrin-V et al. (2010), and López-Aguirre et al. (2015).