Contribución al conocimiento de los murciélagos (Mammalia, Chiroptera) del Parque Natural de Penyagolosa (provincia de Castellón)

Abstract

The main results obtained in the samplings carried out in August 2004 in the Penyagolosa Natural Park are presented. The community of bats of the Natural Park is made up of at least 14 species. Ten of them were located in the samplings, being eight new findings. The review of the most recent bibliography and technical reports allow the remaining four species to be added. Among the species located in the samplings, stand out the forest ones Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Barbastella barbastellus (Schreber, 1774) stand; the crevice-dwelling Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774) and Eptesicus serotinus (Schreber, 1774), and the cave-dwelling Myotis escalerai Cabrera, 1904. Plecotus auritus and Pipistrellus pipistrellus are the most commonly located species. The first one due to purely forest character of the Natural Park and, the second, because of its generic nature-it is therefore, the most abundant species in the interior of the Valencian Community. The information obtained on P. auritus and B. barbastellus confirms the presence of their populations in a context of high biogeographical value since first of the species, is a population located in the southern limit of their distribution area, and, the second is a species with a restricted distribution to certain forest environments of the interior.