SYSTEMATICS OF DOG-FACED BATS (CYNOMOPS) BASED ON MOLECULAR AND MORPHOMETRIC DATA
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cynomops (dog-faced bat) generally is regarded as either a monophyletic genus or, in some cases, a subgenus of Molossops. Species limits and phylogenetic relationships within Cynomops, however, remain unresolved due primarily to subtle morphological differences and similarity in size of the small taxa. We used a combination of morphometric analyses for quantifying size variation and molecular data for reconstructing the evolutionary history within Cynomops. Rooting the tree with Eumops hansae produced a clade of Molossops neglectus and M. temminckii that was sister to a monophyletic Cynomops clade. The most parsimonious topology (in parenthetical notation) for Cynomops was (((paranus + planirostris) + (greenhalli + abrasus)) + mexicanus). Molecular analysis supports the autapomorphy of white venter as diagnostic for C. planirostris, although there was some overlap in size with the slightly larger, dark-venter C. paranus. Cynomops greenhalli was intermediate in size between C. paranus and C. mexicanus, but molecular analyses placed it as sister to the large-sized C. abrasus. The western Mexico endemic C. mexicanus, traditionally considered a subspecies of C. greenhalli, averaged larger in size than the other small Cynomops taxa and was the most basal lineage, requiring its designation as a distinct species.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".