Myopterus whitleyi
Authors/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
Myopterus whitleyi (Scharff, 1900)
Fig. 31 C–D
Mormopterus Whitleyi Scharff, 1900: 569.
* Myopterus whitleyi (Scharff, 1900).
Hayman et al. (1966: 68, map114) reported M. whitleyi from three localities: Léopoldville (= Kinshasa, Kinshasa City Province), Luluabourg (= Kananga, Kasaï Central Province) and Beno (Mai-Ndombe Province), all in the southwestern part of the DRC. Additional specimens were collected in the Kikwit area (Kwilu Province) and in Banana (Kongo Central Province), also in the southwestern part of the DRC. One further specimen, however, was collected in the northeastern part of the DRC: 10 km N of Kasenye (Ituri Province). Aellen (1952: 99) reported the species from Coquilhatville (= Mbandaka, Equateur Province), but that record could not be traced. The distribution map presented by Fahr (2013j: 478) shows two red areas: one encompassing the southwestern DRC records (except for Banana, which is plotted separately) and a second in coastal Nigeria / Cameroon (from the mouth of the Niger to the Mount Cameroon area). Furthermore, he plotted single localities in Ghana, the Central African Republic, Gabon, and Uganda. The SDM map looks very similar, although it doesn’t reach Ghana, as we were unable to trace the specific locality for that country. The map also suggests that M. whitleyi does not occur in the Congolian rainforest, but encircles it both on the north and the south, and the two branches meet again in the Ugandan-Tanzanian border area.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Scharff
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Molossidae
- Genus
- Myopterus
- Species
- whitleyi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myopterus whitleyi (Scharff, 1900) 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.
- Aellen V. 1952. Contribution a l'etude des chiropteres du Cameroun. Memoire de la Societe neuchateloise de Sciences naturelles 8 (1): 1 - 121.
- Fahr J. 2013 j. Myopterus whitleyi Bini Winged-mouse Bat. In: Happold M. & Happold D. (eds) Mammals of Africa Volume IV. Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats: 478 - 479. Bloomsbury Publishing, London.