In the Brazilian Pantanal, virtually no studies of communities of bats, despite the richness of spcies. As the chiropterofauna in the Pantanal is still poorly known, this works purpose was to verify the diversity, trophic guild and similarity in three sub-areas (Aquidauana, Miranda-Abobral and Nhecolândia) of the Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul. From May 1994 to November 2004, 221 sampling sessions were performed, using mist nets and capture effort of 17,148,495 h m2, 2.818 bats were captured, belonging to 34 species distributed in 5 families (Emballonuridae, Molossidae, Noctilionidae, Phyllostomidae and Vespertilionidae). The families Molossidae (n = 9) and Phyllostomidae (n = 15) showed the greatest number of species and the predominant genus was Myotis... |