Noteworthy records of bats from Ecuador

We surveyed mammals at a site in Nape Province, eastern Ecuador, in 1995 an d 1996. We recorded 66 species at the site, including four species new to t he fauna of Ecuador (Cynomops paranus, Eumops hansae, E. maurus, and Moloss us coibensis), two species recorded for the first time from eastern Ecuador (Lichonycteris obscura and Promops centralis), and a new record for Nape P rovince (Artibeus gnomus). Although species richness of bats is among the h ighest recorded in any single area in western Amazonia, the inventory still probably considerably underestimates total species-level diversity.