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Pipistrellus grandidieri
- 1. 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, Pretoria, South Africa & Hipposideros lamottei & Corresponding author: E-mail: ara @ uniswa. sz
- 2. Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, South Africa
- 3. UMR 7205, CNRS, MNHN, EPHE, Sorbonne Université, Paris VI, Institut de Systématique et Evolution de la Biodiversité, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
Description
Pipistrellus cf. grandidieri (Dobson, 1876)
This species is only known from a single specimen collected during this study at 1,200 m a.s.l. in forested habitat in Liberian Nimba. It was referred to as Pipistrellus sp. 1 in Monadjem et al. (2013 a). Its cranial characters are very similar to those of P. grandidieri, however the latter species is currently only known from over 2,500 km away in East Africa (Thorn et al., 2007) and therefore the status of this species remains uncertain (also see Decher et al., 2015). For this reason, we refer to it as P. cf. grandidieri until such time as P. grandidieri has been genetically characterized allowing for a phylogenetic comparison. This species had not been previously recorded from Mt Nimba.
Notes
Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh & Denys, Christiane, 2016, An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity, pp. 359-375 in Acta Chiropterologica 18 (2) on page 370, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.005, http://zenodo.org/record/3942481
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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. Monadjem, Richards & Denys, 2016
References
- DECHER, J., A. HOFFMANN, J. SCHAER, R. W. NORRIS, B. KADJO, J. ASTRIN, A. MONADJEM, and R. HUTTERER. 2015. Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid. Acta Chiropterologica, 17: 255 - 282.