Parnells Mustached Bat (Pteronotus parnellii): a morphologically cryptic species complex
Z. Maya-Simões, AlineL. Clare, ElizabethBrock Fenton, M.
The recent trend towards the use of multiple lines of evidence to characterize species, (behaviour, ecology, molecular markers) in addition to traditional morphological analyses has increased the rate that new species are recognized and described. Gross morphological differences may be subtle, but high genetic divergences between putative species can indicate cryptic speciation events as defined by the Genetic Species Concept (Bradley and Baker 2001).[...]