Tadarida ventralis
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
Tadarida ventralis (Heuglin, 1861)
Fig. 32 C–D
Nyctinomus (Dysopes) ventralis Heuglin, 1861: 4, 11.
* Tadarida (Tadarida) africana (Dobson, 1876): 348.
Hayman et al. (1966: 67, map 107) reported that only one specimen was found in the CRB area: RMCA 29241 from Alima (Nord-Kivu Province). Until that time, T. africana was considered to be a valid species, occurring in southern Africa. Kock (1975: 6) discussed the features of an original specimen of Nyctinomus ventralis and concluded that africana is a synonym of ventralis. This view is followed by most recent authors.
No further specimens from the CRB area were found.
Cotterill (2001a: 201) indicates that T. ventralis has a wide and highly scattered distribution across eastern tropical Africa, which is confirmed by the distribution map presented by Cotterill (2013h: 539). The range covers a major part of western Kenya and the joining area in northern Tanzania. Furthermore, he marked individual localities in Eritrea, Ethiopa, South Sudan, DRC, Zambia, Malawi, northwestern Mozambique, Zimbabwe and possibly northeastern RSA. The SDM map looks very similar, although we excluded the RSA records, as we could not trace the specific specimens.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Molossidae
- Genus
- Tadarida
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Heuglin
- Species
- ventralis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tadarida ventralis (Heuglin, 1861) 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.
- Kock D. 1975. Ein Originalexemplar von Nyctinomus ventralis Heuglin 1861 (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Molossidae). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde (A) 272: 1 - 9. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 33621617 # page / 129 / mode / 1 up [accessed 29 Nov. 2017].
- Cotterill F. P. D. 2001 a. Further notes on large Afrotropical free-tailed bats of the genus Tadarida (Molossidae: Mammalia). Arnoldia Zimbabwe 10 (18): 199 - 210.
- Cotterill F. P. D. 2013 h. Tadarida ventralis Giant Free-tailed Bat. In: Happold M. & Happold D. (eds) Mammals of Africa Volume IV. Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats: 539 - 540. Bloomsbury Publishing, London.