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Pipistrellus nanulus Thomas 1904

Creators

  • 1. Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany & Corresponding author: E-mail: J. Decher @ zfmk. de
  • 2. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
  • 3. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany & Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Chariteplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
  • 4. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, 4240 Campus Dr., Lima, OH 45804, USA
  • 5. Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 22 BP 582 Abidjan 22, Côte d'Ivoire
  • 6. Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany
  • 7. 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, Hatfield 0028, Pretoria, South Africa

Description

Pipistrellus nanulus Thomas, 1904

New material

ZFMK 2008.0297, ♀, W1, 25 February 2008; ZFMK 2008.0298, ♂, FC, 7 March 2008; ZFMK 2009.0031, ♂, WSV, 12 December 2008.

Three individuals of this small vespertilionid were captured. Not one was encountered on the 2002 RAP, but two specimens were captured on the 2003 RAP at Mont Béro (Fahr et al., 2006) and one in the Fouta Djallon at Foye (Weber and Fahr, 2007 b). It was reported in the Liberian portion of Mount Nimba at 600 m (Hill, 1982; Wolton et al., 1982). The species was also previously known from Sérédou, Guinea (Ziama; Roche, 1971); it seems to prefer the rainforest zone extending into Guinea savannah and riverine forest (Van Cakenberghe and Happold, 2013 a). It probably roosts in rock crevices, although Eisentraut (1964) also found them roosting in the roof of a house in Bioko. Pipistrellus nanulus was also caught in the Shai Hills of Ghana — a rocky inselberg formation with dry forest thickets surrounded by savannah (Decher et al., 1997). The female caught at W1 on 25 Feb 2008 carried two embryos of 13 mm and one embryo of 8 mm crown-rump length.

Conservation status

Least Concern. Population trend is unknown (IUCN, 2015).

Notes

Published as part of Decher, Jan, Hoffmann, Anke, Schaer, Juliane, N Orris, Ryan W., Kadjo, Blaise, Astrin, Jonas, Monadjem, Ara & Hutterer, Rainer, 2015, Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid, pp. 255-282 in Acta Chiropterologica 17 (2) on page 274, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3943621

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Related works

Is part of
Journal article: 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.003 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3943621 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFA57959FFFAFFDD773AFFD41E30545D (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZFMK
Event date
2008-03-07 , 2008-12-12
Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Pipistrellus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
ZFMK 2008.0297 , ZFMK 2008.0298 , ZFMK 2009.0031
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Thomas
Species
nanulus
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2008-03-07 , 2008-12-12
Taxonomic concept label
Pipistrellus nanulus Thomas, 1904 sec. Decher, Hoffmann, Schaer, Orris, Kadjo, Astrin, Monadjem & Hutterer, 2015

References

  • FAHR, J., B. A. DJOSSA, and H. VIERHAUS. 2006. Rapid assessment of bats (Chiroptera) in the Dere, Diecke and Mt. Bero classified forests, Southeastern Guinea; including a review of the distribution of bats in Guinee Forestiere. Pp. 168 - 180, in A rapid biological assessment of three classified forests in southeastern Guinea (H. E. WRIGHT, J. MC- CULLOUGH, L. E. ALONSO, and M. S. DIALLO, eds.). RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 40. Conservation International, Washington, D. C., 248 pp.
  • HILL, J. E. 1982. Records of bats from Mount Nimba, Liberia. Mammalia, 46: 116 - 120.
  • WOLTON, R. J., P. A. ARAK, H. C. J. GODFRAY, and R. P. WILSON. 1982. Ecological and behavioral studies of the Megachiroptera at Mount Nimba, Liberia, with notes on Microchiroptera. Mammalia, 46: 419 - 448.
  • ROCHE, J. 1971. Recherches mammalogiques en Guinee forestiere. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 3, 16: 737 - 781.
  • HAPPOLD, M. 2013 a. Epomophorus gambianus Gambian epauletted fruit bat. Pp. 242 - 244, in The mammals of Africa, Volume IV: hedgehogs, shrews and bats (M. HAPPOLD and D. C. D. HAPPOLD, eds.). Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 800 pp.
  • EISENTRAUT, M. 1964. La faune de chiropteres de Fernando-Po. Mammalia, 28: 529 - 552.
  • DECHER, J., D. A. SCHLITTER, and R. HUTTERER. 1997. Noteworthy records of small mammals from Ghana with special emphasis on the Accra Plains. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 66: 209 - 227.
  • IUCN 2015. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. Available at http: // www. iucnredlist. org. Downloaded on 12 June 2015.