Artibeus watsoni Thomas, 1901

_Specimens._--_Chontales_: 1 km N, 1.5 km W Villa Somoza, 330 m, 3.

_Nueva Segovia_: 7 km N, 4 km E Jalapa, 600 m, 1. _Zelaya_:

Bonanza, 850 ft, 6; S side Rio Mico, El Recreo, 25 m, 6; Cara de

Mono, 50 m, 1.

Davis (1970a:393-394) recently reviewed the systematic status of this

small fruit-eating bat and recorded specimens from southeastern

Nicaragua; the species was first reported from the country by Andersen

(1908:290), based on a specimen from the Escondido River. Our

additional material reveals that _A. watsoni_ occurs throughout eastern

Nicaragua, the specimen from Nueva Segovia extending the known range as

mapped by Davis (_loc. cit._).

A female from Bonanza (23 February) carried an embryo 14 mm in

crown-rump length, whereas one from El Recreo (26 February) was not

reproductively active; one of two females netted near Villa Somoza in

early August was pregnant (embryo 21 mm in crown-rump length). Seven

adult males collected in late February and early March had an average

testicular length of 5.9 (5-7) mm; testes of two adults taken in late

June and one captured in early August all measured 5 mm. The testes of

young males (grayish pelage, partially unfused phalangeal epiphyses)

were 2 or 3 mm in length.

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