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Curriculum vitae
Research group
Brazilian Bat Research Society (Sbeq)

Education

Ph.D. (Zoology): Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2008
M.S. (Animal Biology): Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, 2003
B.S. (Biology): Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, 2000

Research Interests

My research covers topics in taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of bats. My current major project is focused on the systematics and biogeography of the Neotropical species of Myotis.

Recent Publications

Moratelli, Ricardo. 2013. Review of: Evolutionary History of Bats: Fossils, Molecules and Morphology. Journal of Mammalogy , 94(2): 520-521. http://dx.doi.org/10.1644/12-MAMM-R-305

Moratelli, Ricardo. 2012. Myotis simus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Mammalian Species, 44(1): 26-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1644/892.1

Moratelli, Ricardo and Oliveira, João A. 2011. Morphometric and morphological variation in South American populations of Myotis albescens (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Zoologia, 28(6): 789-806. doi: 10.1590/S1984-46702011000600013

Moratelli, Ricardo and Wilson, Don E. 2011. The identity of Myotis punensis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Zoologia, 28(1): 115-121. doi.org/10.1590/S1984-46702011000100016

Moratelli, Ricardo and Wilson, Don E. 2011. A new species of Myotis Kaup, 1829 (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from Ecuador. Mammalian Biology, 76(5): 608-614. doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2010.10.003

Moratelli, Ricardo, Andreazzi, Cecília S., Oliveira, João A. and Cordeiro, José Luís P. 2011. Current and potential distribution of Myotis simus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Mammalia, 75: 227-234. doi: 10.1515/mamm.2011.028

Moratelli, Ricardo, Peracchi, Adriano L., Dias, Daniela and Oliveira, João A. 2011. Geographic variation in South American populations of Myotis nigricans (Schinz, 1821) (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), with the description of two new species. Mammalian Biology, 76: 592-607. doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2011.01.003

Moratelli, Ricardo, Peracchi, Adriano L. and Oliveira, João A. 2011. Morphometric and morphological variation in Myotis simus Thomas (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), with an appraisal of the identity of Myotis guaycuru Proença based on the analysis of the type material. Zootaxa, 2985: 41-54.

Moratelli, Ricardo, Dias, Dias and Bonvicino, Cibele R. 2010. Estrutura e análise zoogeográfica de uma taxocenose de morcegos no norte do Estado do Amazonas, Brasil. Chiroptera Neotropical, 16: 661-671.

Moratelli, Ricardo and Morielle-Versute, Eliana. 2007. Métodos e aplicações da citogenética na taxonomia de morcegos brasileiros. In: Reis, Nélio R., Peracchi, Adriano L., Pedro, Wagner A. and Lima, Isaac P., Morcegos Brasileiros. Londrina: Editora da Universidade Estadual de Londrina, pp. 197-218.

Nogueira, Marcelo R., Peracchi, Adriano L., Moratelli, Ricardo. 2007. Subfamília Phyllostominae. In: Reis, Nélio R., Peracchi, Adriano L., Pedro, Wagner A. and Lima, Isaac P., Morcegos Brasileiros. Londrina: Editora da Universidade Estadual de Londrina, pp. 61-98.

Moratelli, Ricardo, Peracchi, Adriano L. 2007. Morcegos (Mammalia, Chiroptera) do Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos. In: Cronemberger, Cecília and Viveiros-de-Castro, Ernesto B., Ciência e Conservação na Serra dos Órgãos. Brasília: IBAMA, PP. 193-210.