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Article: The Ghost-faced bat, Mormoops megalophylla, (Chiroptera: Mormoopidae) from the Davis Mountains, Texas. (General Notes).(Brief Article)
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- The Texas Journal of Science
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- February 1, 2002
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The ghost-faced bat (Mormoops megalophylla) is broadly distributed in the tropics of southwestern North America and a portion of northern South America. The North American range of this species includes the southern three-fourths of Baja California, mainland Mexico and northern Central America (Hall 1981; Cameron 1993). The northern distributional limit of M. megalophylla reaches southeastern Arizona and southern Texas near the Rio Grande (Cameron 1993).
In Trans-Pecos Texas, M. megalophylla has been recorded in only Brewster, Presidio and Culberson counties (Davis & Schmidly 1994). This new record from Jeff Davis County fills a gap in distribution between ...
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