Miniopterus minor Peters 1867
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
Miniopterus minor Peters, 1867
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* Miniopterus minor Peters, 1867 (for 1866): 870.
Hayman et al. (1966: 60) reported M. minor from one locality: Thysville (= Mbanza Ngungu, Kongo Central Province). Two specimens from caves near Thysville (RMCA 10061, 22501) were originally identified as M. schreibersi villiersi, but were re-identified as M. minor, and this was also the case for a specimen from Kisala (INPBC W1462). All these localities are in the extreme western part of the DRC.
Happold (2013 ar: 717) indicates that M. minor is distributed over three areas in continental Africa: on São Tomé, in western DCR and southwestern Congo and in the coastal boundary area between Kenya and Tanzania. The species is furthermore also reported from the Central African Republic, the Comoro Islands and from Madagascar (ACR 2016: 1191).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Peters
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Genus
- Miniopterus
- Species
- minor
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Miniopterus minor Peters, 1867 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.
- Happold M. & Happold D. 2013. Mammals of Africa Volume IV. Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats. Bloomsbury, London.
- ACR. 2016. African Chiroptera Report. AfricanBats, Pretoria. Available from http: // www. africanbats. org / index. php / publications / africa-chiroptera-report [accessed 28 Sep. 2017].