Pamela Sanchez Vendizu

• Magister en Zoología
• Estudiante de Doctorado at Universidad Austral de Chile

Abrotrichini is the sigmodontine tribe with the fewest species in Peru, known only from two species: Abrothrix andina and Ab. jelskii, both distributed in the high Andean regions of Peru above 3000 m in altitude. A detailed review of the morphology of historical specimens collected in the Tacna department and iden- tified as Akodon mollis was condu...

This indexing protocol details how to index greater than 96 samples using a combination of custom indices and the Native Barcoding Kit from Oxford Nanopore Technologies for sequencing on a Nanopore sequencer.

End-to-end workflow to generate cleaned consensus sequences from multiplexed amplicons sequenced with Nanopore sequencing technology. Includes read basecalling, quality control, data filtering, read demultiplexing, consensus sequence generation, and a data summary. The workflow assumes that individual samples have been uniquely indexed to allow hig...

Peru holds a high mammalian diversity in its Amazonian region, with 326 species. However, our knowledge about the actual diversity is still considered incomplete, and the molecular information for those species in genetic databases is even less comprehensive. To assess the availability of genetic information for Peruvian Amazonian mammals relative...

This protocol is an automated pipeline to clean a plate of extracted DNA using SPRI bead cleanup. It is functional for both. It is typically used to clean up a portion of extracted DNA which has suspected impurities capable of affecting downstream PCR or sequencing protocols. This is often a side effect of extraction by MagBeads with no spin-column...

Nuevos registros del murciélago endémico Myotis bakeri Moratelli, Novaes, Carrión-Bonilla & Wilson, 2019 (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) en el Perú y un nuevo patrón zoogeográfico Introducción Resultados y discusión Myotis bakeri es un murciélago endémico de las costas peruanas recientemente descrito a partir de 4 ejemplares. Presenta gran similarid...

Myotis bakeri es un murciélago endémico de las costas peruanas recientemente descrito a partir de 4 ejemplares. Es una especie con gran similaridad morfológica con M. atacamensis (Lataste, 1892) por lo que ambas pueden ser confundidas en especímenes de museo y ejemplares vivos. Además, el conocimiento sobre su historia natural y distribución geográ...

Chironomidae of symbiotic habits have been recorded in different parts of the world, among commensals and parasites. There are different genera reported at the moment, however questions such as the origin of commensal or parasitic life, which occurred first or what are their benefits remain debatable. In order to contribute with information to eluc...

Myotis bakeri is a Peruvian endemic bat with little information about its natural history and geographic distribution. Based on a revision of museum specimens, we report new records of M. bakeri extending its distribution range 143 km northwest and 98 km southeast. Also, the elevational range is extended to 1445 m. The current allo-patric distribut...

The recently described bat Lasiurus arequipae Málaga, Díaz, Arias & Medina, 2020 is endemic to Peru. Lasiurus are­quipae is currently known to occur at two localities in the department of Arequipa and one locality in the department of Tacna in southwestern Peru. Here, based on morphological and molecular data, we present a fourth locality that repr...

En el presente trabajo, presentamos una lista actualizada de mamíferos mayores para Loreto compuesta por 72 especies en 8 órdenes y 25 familias. Esta lista fue elaborada a partir de la minuciosa revisión de bases de datos, colecciones zoológicas y publicaciones científicas. En Loreto se encuentran 5 especies endémicas nacionales: Lagothrix flavicau...

En este trabajo realizamos una revisión exhaustiva de bases de datos de colecciones científicas y literatura especializada con el objetivo de actualizar la lista de los mamíferos menores no voladores (<1000 g aprox.) del departamento de Loreto. Como resultado se contabilizaron 536 localidades en la que se registran 75 especies, agrupadas en cuatro...

En este trabajo presentamos una lista actualizada de los murciélagos de Loreto basada en la revisión de bases de datos, colecciones científicas y literatura especializada. Encontramos que Loreto es el departamento con mayor diversidad de murciélagos del Perú, con 114 especies agrupadas en 7 familias (19.9% de la mastofauna peruana), y que incluyen...

La lista de mamíferos del Perú más reciente, publicada en el año 2020, compiló un total de 569 especies y 82 especies endémicas, sin embargo, en corto tiempo varios cambios taxonómicos han ocurrido y obligan a presentar otra lista actualizada de todas las especies de mamíferos con registros en el Perú. Esta nueva lista actualizada hasta noviembre d...

Echimys saturnus Thomas, 1928 is an echimyid rodent that has been recorded in lowland, premontane and montane forests in Ecuador and lowland forests in Peru. Here, we report five new records of this species in the Peruvian Yungas ecoregion. Our records come from Amazonas, San Martín, and Huánuco departments. The Huánuco specimen, collected at 3300...

Innovative techniques, such as environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding, are now promoting broader biodiversity monitoring at unprecedented scales, because of the reduction in time, presumably lower cost, and methodological efficiency. Our goal was to assess the efficiency of established inventory techniques (live‐trapping grids, pitfall traps, camer...

The systematics and taxonomy of the broadly distributed bats of the genus Cynomops has changed considerably in the last few years. Among the major changes, Cynomops abrasus was split into two species of large-bodied forms ( Cynomops mastivus and C. abrasus ) distributed east of the Andes. However, large Colombian specimens identified as C. abrasus...

Neusticomys peruviensis is a poorly known sigmodontine rodent of the tribe Ichthyomyini, represented in collections by only five specimens collected in five localities from lowland forests of central and southern Peru. Recent expeditions in Llanchama, in northern Peru, north of the Río Amazonas, and near Allpahuayo Mishana Natural Reserve (Loreto,...

Proechimys pattoni da Silva, 1998 is one of the 3 small-bodied species of Proechimys and its geographic range is only known in western Brazil and eastern and southern Peru. However, based on morphological and molecular analyses, we report P. pattoni from the lowland forest of Bolivia (Pando: Rio Madre de Dios, near San Rosa). This is the first repo...

The genus Neacomys includes 10 recognized species of Neotropical spiny mice in the tribe Oryzomyini. Five species have previously been reported from Peru, but the small-bodied Peruvian taxa remain unrevised. In this report, we present the first systematic and taxonomic revision of small-bodied Neacomys populations in Peru and describe two new speci...

Anoura is a Neotropical genus of long-tongued bats containing at least 10 species, whose taxonomy has been revised substantially in recent years. Herein, we describe a new species of Anoura from the Cordillera Oriental of the Peruvian Andes, inhabiting montane forests (Yungas) at 1900–3450 m altitude, along the Río Cosñipata valley in Manu Biospher...

Sturnira bakeri was recently described from southwestern Ecuador near the Peruvian border and was suggested to occur also in Peru. To confirm this hypothesis we present a morphological and morphometric revision of specimens of Sturnira collected from northwestern Peru. As result, we report the presence of S. bakeri from Peru and extend its distribu...