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Myonycteris leptodon Andersen 1908
- 1. All Out Africa Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland & Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag 20, Pretoria, South Africa & Hipposideros lamottei & Corresponding author: E-mail: ara @ uniswa. sz
- 2. Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, South Africa
- 3. UMR 7205, CNRS, MNHN, EPHE, Sorbonne Université, Paris VI, Institut de Systématique et Evolution de la Biodiversité, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
Description
Myonycteris leptodon Andersen, 1908
This species had previously been recorded from the Liberian and Guinean side of Mt Nimba (Coe, 1975; Verschuren, 1977; Wolton et al., 1982; Fahr et al., 2006). This species was recorded across a wide range of forested habitats on both Liberian and Guinean sides of the mountain from 450 m to 1,350 m a.s.l. We follow Nesi et al. (2013) in recognising the West African taxon as a species separate from M. torquata, which occurs further east.
Notes
Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh & Denys, Christiane, 2016, An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity, pp. 359-375 in Acta Chiropterologica 18 (2) on page 364, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.005, http://zenodo.org/record/3942481
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pteropodidae
- Genus
- Myonycteris
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Andersen
- Species
- leptodon
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myonycteris leptodon Andersen, 1908 sec. Monadjem, Richards & Denys, 2016
References
- COE, M. 1975. Mammalian ecological studies at Mount Nimba, Liberia. Mammalia, 39: 523 - 588.
- FAHR, J., B. A. DJOSSA, and H. VIERHAUS. 2006. Rapid assessment of bats (Chiroptera) in Dere, Diecke and Mt. Bero classified forests, southeastern Guinea; including a review of the distribution of bats in Guinee Forestiere. Pp. 168 - 180, 245 - 247, in A rapid biological assessment of three classified forests in Southeastern Guinea (H. E. WRIGHT, J. MCCULLOUGH, L. E. ALONSO, and M. S. DIALLO, eds.). Conservation International, RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, Washington, D. C., 40, 248 pp.