title: Karyotype of three Lonchophylla species (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Southeastern Brazil.
abstract: Lonchophylla Thomas, 1903 is a Neotropical bat genus that comprises 12 species, with little cytogenetic information available. Here we present the description of the karyotype of three species collected in Southeastern Brazil. Lonchophylla bokermanni Sazima, Vizotto & Taddei, 1978, Lonchophylla dekeyseri Taddei, Vizotto & Sazima, 1983, and Lonchophylla peracchii Dias, Moratelli & Esberard, 2013 showed the same diploid number 2n = 28 and the same autosomal fundamental number FNa = 50, in both Lonchophylla bokermanni and Lonchophylla peracchii. We observed that the karyotypes were also cytogenetically similar when we compared the studied species with other species within the same genus. It is therefore not possible to differentiate the species using only karyotypes with conventional staining. However, this information increases the knowledge of the genus and can be one more important character for a better phylogenetic comprehension of this taxon.
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Zoologia, Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, 20550-013, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Vertebrados, Quinta da Boa Vista s/n, 20940-040, São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Brunna
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.affiliation: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Campus Fiocruz da Mata Atlântica, Estrada Rodrigues Caldas 3400, 22713375, Taquara, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Roberto Leonan Morim
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Novaes
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Zoologia, Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, 20550-013, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aguieiras
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Ecologia, Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, 20550-013, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Renan de França
authors.initials: Rde F
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Biologia, Km 47 da antiga estrada Rio-São Paulo, 23851-970, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carlos Eduardo Lustosa
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Esbérard
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Zoologia, Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, 20550-013, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Geise
keywords: Atlantic Forest; Bokermann’s Nectar Bat; Cerrado; Endangered species; Karyology; Lonchophyllinae; chromosomes; range extension