Pipistrellus grandidieri
Creators
- 1. University of Antwerp, Department of Biology, Functional Morphology, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein, 1, B- 2610 Antwerpen (Wilrijk), Belgium. & AfricanBats NPC, 357 Botha Ave, Kloofsig, 0157, Republic of South Africa.
- 2. Faculté des Sciences, Université de Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo. & Faculté des Sciences, Université de Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 3. Faculté des Sciences, Université de Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 4. AfricanBats NPC, 357 Botha Ave, Kloofsig, 0157, Republic of South Africa. & Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X 20 Hatfield, Pretoria 0028, Republic of South Africa.
- 5. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - OD Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. & University of Antwerp, Department of Biology, Evolutionary Ecology, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 1, B- 2610 Antwerpen (Wilrijk), Belgium.
Description
Pipistrellus grandidieri (Dobson, 1876)
Fig 46 C–D
Vesperugo (Vesperus) grandidieri Dobson, 1876: 500.
* Eptesicus grandidieri (Dobson, 1876).
Although Hayman et al. (1966: 46) report six “ Eptesicus grandidieri ” specimens from the DRC, none of these actually belong to that species, but rather to Neoromicia capensis. However, two additional specimens from Resha (Burundi; SMF 57586 and 57587) were found to belong to grandidieri, so the species does occur in the CRB area.
Thorn et al. (2007) re-evaluated the known material of grandidieri and concluded that this form should be assigned to a separate subgenus (Afropipistrellus) within the genus Pipistrellus. Van Cakenberghe & Happold (2013c: 623) present an extremely patchy distribution range, which covers a number of isolated localities ranging from the Nigerian/Cameroonian border to southern Somalia, and southwards to central
Angola and southern Mozambique. Here, we extend the distribution to Guinea and Liberia in West Africa, where “ Pipistrellus cf. grandidieri ” was reported by Decher et al. (2016: 273).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Genus
- Pipistrellus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Dobson
- Species
- grandidieri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pipistrellus grandidieri (Dobson, 1876) sec. Cakenberghe, Tungaluna, Akawa, Seamark & Verheyen, 2017
References
- Hayman R. W., Misonne X. & Verheyen W. N. 1966. The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi. Annalen van het Koninklijk Museum voor Midden Afrika, Zoologische Wetenschappen, Ser. 8, 154: 1 - 105.
- Thorn E., Kock D. & Cuisin J. 2007. Status of the African bats Vesperugo grandidieri Dobson 1876 and Vesperugo flavescens Seabra 1900 (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), with description of a new subgenus. Mammalia 71 (1 / 2): 70 - 79. https: // doi. org / 10.1515 / MAMM. 2007.013
- Van Cakenberghe V. & Happold M. 2013 c. Pipistrellus grandidieri Yellow Pipistrelle. In: Happold M. & Happold D. (eds) Mammals of Africa Volume IV. Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats: 623 - 624. Bloomsbury Publishing, London.
- Decher J., Hoffmann A., Schaer J., Norris R. W., Kadjo B., Astrin J., Monadjem A. & Hutterer R. 2016. Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid. Acta Chiropterologica 17 (2): 255 - 282 (for 2015). https: // doi. org / 10.3161 / 15081109 ACC 2015.17.2.003