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 3 Summary of diagnostic characters of four genera of Natalidae

	Nyctiellus	Chilonatalus	Primonatalus	Natalus
Forearm length	26.6–31.0	30.7–36.0	—	34.0–51.2
Length of tibia	12.3–14.0	14.7–20.3	—	16.0–29.1
Greatest skull length	12.5–14.0	13.5–16.0	—	15.0–19.9
Calcar	less than K the	about O of free edge	—	slightly more than K
	length of free edge	of uropatagium		the length of the free
	of uropatagium			edge of uropatagium
Free edge of	naked	with fringe of fine	—	with fringe of fine hairs
uropatagium		hairs
Attachment of wing	at about the distal	from distal O to the	—	at distal 4/5 of tibia
to tibia	L of tibia	proximal M of tibia
Dermal outgrowths	absent	present	—	absent
on muzzle
Mustaches	formed by highly	formed by highly	—	formed by disordered
	parallel hairs	parallel hairs		hairs
Distal third of ear	narrow, huge notch	wide, small notch	—	wide, small notch to no
pinna		to no notch		notch
Ear folds	reduced, 7 or more	vestigial, 2–3	—	vestigial, 0–6
Natalid organ,	square shaped, on	hemispherical or	—	elliptical or wedge
dorsal view	dorsum of rostrum	spindle shaped, on		shaped, on forehead
dorsum of rostrum
reaching forehead
Anterior palatal	very small	medium sized	—	medium sized
emargination
Base of zygomatic	deeper than crown	about as deep as	about as deep as	about as deep as height
arch	height of last molar	height of last molar	height of last	of last molar crown
		crown	molar crown
Braincase	uninflated	inflated to globular	—	inflated to globular
Basisphenoid pit	undivided by	divided in two by	—	divided in two by
	longitudinal ridge	longitudinal ridge		longitudinal ridge
Ectotympanic	large, covers periotic	small, periotic visible	—	small, periotic visible
Height of coronoid	as high as condyloid	as high as condyloid	slightly higher than	slightly higher to as
process			condyloid	high as condyloid
Angular process	dorsally curved, with	dorsally curved,	dorsally curved,	anterodorsally curved
	medial projection	pointed	with medial	and blunt
			projection
Crown of P2	extremely reduced	about as high as	—	about as high as that of
		that of p3		p3
Ribs	broadly expanded	fused to each other	—	broadly expanded
Spinous process	higher than	higher than	as high as	as high as capitulum
of humerus	capitulum	capitulum	capitulum