Abstract
Pigmentation disorders, either from the complete absence (albinism), partial (leucism), or excess (melanism) of melanin, are rare in vertebrates. Worldwide, only a few records of these disorders had been reported for bats. Thanks to recent fieldwork and examination of museum specimens of the collections of the AMNH and MUSM, we report five species with those conditions in Peru. In this study, we report the first cases of leucism in Artibeus anderseni, Chiroderma trinitatum, and Desmodus rotundus and partial melanism in Carollia perspicillata. Additionally, we report the first record of an albino bat (Molossus molossus) for Peru.
Acknowledgments
We thank all the participants of the “International Bat Course 2012” organized by CEBIO. Special thanks are for the course organizer, Erika Paliza. The following curators and collection staff graciously provided access to the specimens under their care: Nancy B. Simmons and Eileen Westwig, AMNH; Erika Paliza, CEBIO; and Víctor Pacheco, MUSM. We are grateful to Marco Tschapka for the live photographs of the albino Molossus molossus and Kerry Kline and two anonymous reviewers for reading and improving early versions of this report. Funding for this project was provided to PMV by the Gerstner and Roosevelt postdoctoral fellowships at the American Museum of Natural History, by NSF grant DEB 0949859 to Nancy B. Simmons, National Geographic Grant CRE-4-17-07 to DGS and NSF grant DEB-1020966 to Sonia Altizer and Pejman Rohani.
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