Bats of the World

A Taxonomic and Geographic Database

Compiled and Edited by:
Nancy B. Simmons and Andrea L. Cirranello
American Museum of Natural History

Your search for Corynorhinus leonpaniaguae resulted in 1 species-level match:

Corynorhinus H. Allen , 1865. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 17: 173.

Plecotus macrotis Le Conte, 1831 (= Plecotus rafinesque Lesson, 1827)

Corynorhinus leonpaniaguae López-Cuamatzi, Ortega, Ospina-Garcé, Zúñiga & MacSwiney G., 2024.
PLOS One 19(2): 23.
León Paniagua’s Big-eared Bat

Mexico, Nuevo León, Galeana, 2.5 km NE from Puerto Grande, Cave El Hundido

Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas. (Mexico)

CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Not Evaluated (new species).

Specimens now assigned to leonpaniaguae were formerly attributed to mexicanus, from which they are both molecularly and morphologically distinct; see López-Cuamatzi et al. (2024) and Valencia M. et al. (2024).

References:

López-Cuamatzi, I.L., J. Ortega, S.M. Ospina-Garcés, G. Zúñiga, and M.C. MacSwiney G. 2024. Molecular and morphological data suggest a new species of big-eared bat (Vespertilionidae: Corynorhinus) endemic to northeastern Mexico . PLOS One 19(2): e0296275. Read article.

Valencia M., P., J.A. Baeza, I.L. López-Cuamatzi, and J. Ortega. 2024. Characterization of the mitochondrial genomes of the Mexican endemic bats Corynorhinus mexicanus and Corynorhinus leonpaniaguae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Molecular Biology Reports 51(760): . Read abstract.