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Our results support other recent studies that discuss the importance of shape variation for the discrimination of species and reject the assumption that size is the best way to distinguish \textit{Carollia} species. This also suggests that the complex morphological delimitation and boundaries of \textit{Carollia} species could be better understood by analyzing its asymmetric component, rather than focusing in traditional approaches that are restricted to symmetric variation.   In this study, presence of FA was ginterpreted interpreted  as a signal of high phenotypical diversity within species, rather than an indirect indicator of ecosystem variability, DI or some kind of stress (i.e. (e.g.  genetic or environmental). In the asymmetric CVA, specimens of \textit{C. brevicauda} and \textit{C. perspicillata} dispersed similarly across the morphospace, while specimens of \textit{C. castanea} dispersed slightly less. Also, species-specific patterns of morphological variation found in the thin-plate splines revealed some similarities between \textit{C. brevicauda} and \textit{C. perspicillata}, as well as \textit{C. castanea} as the most morphologically distant species.