Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Scotophilus dinganii

Description

Scotophilus dinganii (A. Smith, 1833). S. Afr. Quart. J., 2:59.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Port Natal (= Durban).

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal and Sierra Leone east to Somalia and S Yemen and south to South Africa and Namibia.

SYNONYMS: colias, herero, planirostris, pondoensis (see C. B. Robbins et al., 1985).

COMMENTS: Placed in leucogaster by Koopman (1975:414-416, as nigrita; 1986) and Koopman et al. (1978:4-5); but see also Schütter et al. (1980).

Notes

Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 227, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060

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Biodiversity

Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Scotophilus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
A. Smith
Species
dinganii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Scotophilus dinganii (Smith, 1833) sec. Koopman, 1993

References

  • Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444.
  • Koopman, K. F., R. E. Mumford, and J. F. Heisterberg. 1978. Bat records from Upper Volta, west Africa. American Museum Novitates, 2643: 1 - 6.