Comparative phylogeography of bamboo bats of the genus Tylonycteris (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Southeast Asia

  • Vuong Tan Tu Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Cau Giay District, Hanoi
  • Gábor Csorba Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u. 13, 1088 Budapest
  • Manuel Ruedi Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology, Natural History Museum of Geneva, Route de Malagnou 1, BP 6434, 1211 Geneva 6
  • Neil M. Furey Fauna & Flora International, Cambodia Programme, 19 Street 360, BKK 1, Chamkarmorn, Phnom Penh
  • Nguyen Truong Son Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Cau Giay District, Hanoi
  • Vu Dinh Thong Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Cau Giay District, Hanoi
  • Céline Bonillo Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Service de Systématique Moléculaire, UMS 2700, CP 26, 43, Rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris
  • Alexandre Hassanin Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Service de Systématique Moléculaire, UMS 2700, CP 26, 43, Rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.274
Keywords: Vespertilioninae, Tylonycteris, DNA phylogeny, taxonomy, biogeography

Abstract

In Southeast Asia, bats of the genus Tylonycteris Peters, 1872 have traditionally been classified into two wide-ranging species, T. pachypus (Temminck, 1840) and T. robustula Thomas, 1915. Our comparative phylogeographic analyses based on two mitochondrial and seven nuclear genes, combined with our multivariate morphological analyses, show that these species actually represent cryptic species complexes that share a similar biogeographic history in three major regions, i.e., Sundaland, southern Indochina, and northern Indochina. Our molecular dating estimates suggest that Pleistocene climatic oscillations and sea level changes have repeatedly isolated ancestral populations of Tylonycteris spp. in distant bamboo forest refugia. The analyses indicate, however, that populations of the T. pachypus complex were less affected by forest fragmentation in mainland Southeast Asia than those of the T. robustula complex. Accordingly, we propose several taxonomic changes within the genus Tylonycteris: the species T. fulvida and T. malayana are revalidated, and a new species, T. tonkinensis Tu, Csorba, Ruedi & Hassanin sp. nov., endemic to northern Indochina, is described.

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2017-02-09
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Tu, V. T., Csorba, G., Ruedi, M., Furey, N. M., Son, N. T., Thong, V. D., Bonillo, C., & Hassanin, A. (2017). Comparative phylogeography of bamboo bats of the genus Tylonycteris (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Southeast Asia. European Journal of Taxonomy, (274). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.274
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