NOTEWORTHY RECORDS OF BATS FROM NICARAGUA, WITH A CHECKLIST OF THE CHIROPTERAN FAUNA OF THE COUNTRY Nicaragua occupies a strategic position in Central America with respect to mammalian distributional patterns, but relatively little has been published concerning the fauna of the country and its zoogeographic relationships. The present paper records information on distribution, variation, and natural history of 40 species of bats from Nicaragua, 14 of which are here recorded for the first time from the country. Appended is a checklist of the chiropteran fauna of Nicaragua in which only primary literature with actual reference to specimens from the republic is cited.…
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