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Miniopterus fraterculus Thomas and

Creators

  • 1. All Out Africa Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland
  • 2. School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, Republic of South Africa
  • 3. All Out Africa, P. O. Box 153, Lobamba, Swaziland
  • 4. Département d'Ecologie et Evolution, Université de Lausanne, Biophore 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 5. Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 1, Matieland, Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa
  • 6. Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust (MMCT), P. O. Box 139, Mulanje, Malawi & Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • 7. AEON - Africa Earth Observatory Network, Departments of Geological Sciences, and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, Republic of South Africa
  • 8. Institute of Biogeography, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, CH- 4056, Switzerland Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, HIF C 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15, CH- 8093 Zurich, Switzerland Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, Republic of South Africa Department of Ecology and Resource Management, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Venda, Private Bag X 5050, Thohoyandou, 0950, Republic of South Africa Corresponding author: E-mail: ara @ uniswacc. uniswa. sz
  • 9. Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, HIF C 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15, CH- 8093 Zurich, Switzerland 11 Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, Republic of South Africa

Description

Miniopterus cf. fraterculus Thomas and

Schwann 1906

Five adult male bats referable to this species were captured on the lower slopes of Mount Namuli, with further specimens from Mount Mabu in northern Mozambique. The two specimens that were collected had greatest skull lengths of 14.3 and 14.8 mm, with head lengths of 16.0 and 16.2 mm, respectively. The three released individuals had head lengths of 15.8, 16.1 and 16.8 mm. These head and skull measurements are significantly shorter than Miniopterus natalensis but within the range of M. fraterculus. The closest population of M. fraterculus to that on Mount Namuli (and the nearby Mount Zomba in neighbouring Malawi) is> 1000 km away in South Africa (Monadjem et al., 2010) suggesting that this isolated population may be specifically distinct.

Field measurements: FA (adult male) 43.7 ± 0.95 (42.1–44.5, 5); Bm (adult male) 8.0 ± 0.35 (7.5– 8.5, 5).

Notes

Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, pp. 371-391 in Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2) on page 385, DOI: 10.3161/150811010X537963, http://zenodo.org/record/3944583

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/2431452B35619A3CFC8CC14DABA9FC4E

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Journal article: 10.3161/150811010X537963 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3944583 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/2431452B35619A3CFC8CC14DABA9FC4E (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/165088690 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/21491/taxon/2431452B35619A3CFC8CC14DABA9FC4E.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Miniopteridae
Genus
Miniopterus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Species
fraterculus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • MONADJEM, A., P. J. TAYLOR, F. P. D. COTTERILL, and M. C. SCHOEMAN. 2010. Bats of Southern and Central Africa: a biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 596 pp.