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Title: A New Bat (Genus Leptonycteris) From Coahuila

Author: Howard J. Stains

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 9, No. 10, pp. 353-356
January 21, 1957

A New Bat (Genus Leptonycteris)
From Coahuila

BY
HOWARD J. STAINS

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1957

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Harrison B. Tordoff

Volume 9, No. 10, pp. 353-356
Published January 21, 1957

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1957

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A New Bat (Genus Leptonycteris)
From Coahuila

BY
HOWARD J. STAINS
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University

In a collection of mammals obtained in Coahuila, Mexico, there is a
series of 24 long-nosed bats, _Leptonycteris nivalis_. These bats have a
larger skull and a longer third finger than other bats of this species
found to the south of Coahuila. On the basis of these distinctive
characters, it seems appropriate to recognize these long-nosed bats
from Coahuila as belonging to a new subspecies, named and described
as follows:

#Leptonycteris nivalis longala# new subspecies

_Type._--Female, adult, skin and skull, No. 33087, Univ. Kansas
Mus. Nat. Hist.; 12 mi. S and 2 mi. E Arteaga, 7500 ft., Coahuila;
11 July 1949; obtained by W. K. Clark, original number 787.

_Range._--Southern Coahuila north to the Big Bend (Brewster County)
of Texas.

_Diagnosis._--Size large (see measurements); third finger long;
color pale, upperparts Hair Brown (capitalized color terms are
afte