Mops (Xiphonycteris) thersites
| Autor: | Mongombe, Aaron Manga, Fils, Eric Moise Bakwo, Tamesse, Joseph Lebel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.4338042 |
| Popis: | Mops (Xiphonycteris) thersites (Thomas, 1903) (Table 3) Nyctinomus thersites Thomas, 1903: 634. COMMON NAME. — English: Railer Mops Bat. French: Tadaride de Railer. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 2 specimens (including original data). Other localities of Cameroon • 1 specimen; Bipindi; Zenker Georg August leg.; ZMB T10542. ORIGINAL DATA. — During our field surveys, a single individual (Table 1) attributed to this species was capture over a slow flowing stream at an altitude of 470 m a.s.l. This specimen was the first recorded from the Mount Cameroon area, but this species had previously been recorded from Sahelian zone of northern Cameroon (Bakwo Fils et al. 2014). We did not examine any museum specimens. DIAGNOSIS. — This specimen possesses the characteristic dark colored wings and conspicuous blackish flanks below wings between the leg and arm described by Patterson & Webala (2012) and Happold (2013i as Tadarida thersites). Other features mentioned by Happold (2013i) are also typical such as a forearm length of 35 to 42 mm. The external and skull measurements are provided in Table 3 and Table 4, respectively. HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — This species has been widely recorded from much of western and Central Africa (Happold 2013i). It has been recorded mostly from lowland rainforest and secondary forest, but also occurs in mesic savannah and adjacent grassland habitats (Monadjem et al. 2010; Happold 2013i). It roosts in small groups in tree hollows, under roof of houses and cracks of building (Happold 1987; Monadjem et al. 2010). Family MINIOPTERIDAE Dobson, 1875 Published as part of Mongombe, Aaron Manga, Fils, Eric Moise Bakwo & Tamesse, Joseph Lebel, 2020, Annotated checklist of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Mount Cameroon, southwestern Cameroon, pp. 483-514 in Zoosystema 42 (24) on pages 505-506, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4060043 {"references":["BAKWO FILS E. M., BOL A. G., TSALA B. D., GUIKE B. B., DAVID EMERY T. & FOTSO KUATE A. 2014. - Diversity of bats of the Far North Region of Cameroon with two first records for the country. Biodiversity 15: 16 - 22. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 1488 8386.2014. 889578","PATTERSON B. D & WEBALA P. W. 2012. - Keys to the bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of East Africa. Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences 6: 1 - 160. https: // doi. org / 10.3158 / 2158 - 5520 - 12.6.1","HAPPOLD M. 2013 i. - Tadarida thersites Railer Free-tailed Bat, in M. HAPPOLD & D. C. D. HaPPOLD (eds), The mammals of Africa. Vol. IV. Hegdehogs, shrews and bats. Bloomsbury Publishing, Londo: 535 - 537. http: // doi. org / 10.5040 / 9781472926944.0291","MONADJEM A., TAYLOR P. J., COTTERILL F. P. D. & SCHOEMAN M. C. 2010. - Bats of Southern and Central Africa: a Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis. University of the Witwatersrand Press, Johannesburg, South Africa, 596 p. https: // doi. org / 10.1644 / 12 - MAMM-R- 184.1","HAPPOLD D. C. D. 1987. - The mammals of Nigeria. Clarendon Press. Oxford, 402 p. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0030605300027708"]} |
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