Systematics Of Funnel-Eared Bats (Chiroptera: Natalidae) Author Tejedor, Adrian text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 2011-06-03 2011 353 1 140 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/636.1 journal article 10.1206/636.1 0003-0090 5406518

TABLE 5 Diagnostic characters of species of the genus Natalus

	espiritosantensis	jamaicensis	lanatus	major	mexicanus	primus	tumidirostris	stramineus
Measurements: min.–max.
Forearm length	37.0–42.1	44.0–47	35.4–38.6	41.1–45.0	34.0–40.6	46.1–51.2	36.1–41.5	37.2–40.5
Length of tibia	20.1–23.8	24.3–25.7	16.0–19.2	23.2–25.4	19.4–22.3	25.4–29.1	18.9–22.4	19.8–23.2
Greatest skull length	15.9–17.0	17.2–18.1	15.0–16.4	17.0–18.1	14.9–16.8	18.1–19.9	15.5–17.3	15.7–17.5
Breadth across	3.4–4.2	3.7–4.1	3.4–3.8	3.9–4.5	3.2–3.8	3.8–4.5	3.4–4.2	3.3–4.2
canines
Maxillary tooth row	6.5–7.0	7.8–8.1	6.3–6.9	7.5–8.0	6.3–7.1	7.8–10.3	6.5–7.3	6.8–7.5
Medial margin of ear	deeply concave	straight	straight	straight	slightly concave	straight	deeply	slightly to
							concave	deeply
								concave
Lateral margin of ear	deeply concave	deeply concave	deeply concave	deeply concave	deeply concave	straight	deeply concave	deeply concave
Number of ear folds	5–6	5–6	0–2	5–6	5–6	4	5–6	5–6
Ventral pelage	monocolored	monocolored	hair bases dark	monocolored	monocolored	monocolored	monocolored	monocolored
			than tips
Ungual tuft	absent	absent	present	absent	absent	absent	absent	absent
Premaxilla	not inflated	not inflated	not inflated	not inflated	not inflated	not inflated	not inflated	inflated
Maxilla dorsal to	convex, not	concave	convex, not	convex, not	convex, not	convex, not	inflated	convex, not
molars	inflated		inflated	inflated	inflated	inflated		inflated
Postorbital region,	sides widely	sides nearly	sides widely	sides widely	sides widely	sides widely	sides widely	sides widely
dorsal view	diverging	parallel	diverging	diverging	diverging	diverging	diverging	diverging
	rostrally		rostrally	rostrally	rostrally	rostrally	rostrally	rostrally
Palate between	present	present	present	present	present	present	absent	present
pterygoids
Caudal margins of	forming acute	forming acute	almost	forming acute	forming acute	almost	forming acute	forming acute
maxilla, ventral view	angle with	angle with	perpendicular	angle with	angle with	perpendicular	angle with	angle with
	longitudinal	longitudinal	to longitudinal	longitudinal	longitudinal	to longitudinal	longitudinal	longitudinal
	axis of skull	axis of skull	axis of skull	axis of skull	axis of skull	axis of skull	axis of skull	axis of skull
Basisphenoid pits	shallow	shallow	shallow	shallow	shallow	deep and steep	shallow	shallow
						sided
Caudal margin	perpendicular	perpendicular	perpendicular	perpendicular	perpendicular	forming a 70u	perpendicular	perpendicular
of mandible	to alveolar	to alveolar	to alveolar	to alveolar	to alveolar	angle with	to alveolar	to alveolar
	plane	plane	plane	plane	plane	alveolar plane	plane	plane
I1, ventral view	level with I2	level with I2	rostral to I2	level with I2	rostral to I2	rostral to I2	level with I2	level with I2
Mesostylar crest	absent	absent	absent	absent	absent	present	absent	absent
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