Figure 1 in Range extension to Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas province and revised distribution of Platyrrhinus chocoensis (Phyllostomidae: Chiroptera) in western Ecuador

Figure 1. Frontal (A) and lateral (B) views of a live specimen of Platyrrhinus chocoensis collected byWEPR and RAB in San Antonio Farm (voucher number MIZI2012397). (Table 1). Based on the P. chocoensis vouchers deposited Choco-Darien ecoregion were originally settled in the in MECN, QCAZ, TTU, and on our record, we propose that Esmeraldas, Manabí, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Los the new species distribution extends to Santo Domingo Rios, Western Pichincha and Eastern Guayas Provinces de los Tsáchilas province (Fig. 2). Furthermore, according (CEPF, 2005), so a record of endemic Chocoan species to Burneo & Tirira (2014), it may extend to the Los Rios was to be expected in any locality of these provinces. In Province and may reach the lowland moist forests of the fact, Burneo & Tirira (2014) predicted the potential south- Los Guayas Province, considering the similar ecological ern extent in the distribution of P. chocoensis before the characteristics of these forests. present report. Ramirez-Chaves & Suarez-Castro (2015) report that P. chocoensis occurs in the lowlands of southern Panama DISCUSSION and the Pacific region of Colombia, south to northwest-