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Myotis welwitschii Scotophilinae
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
Myotis welwitschii (Gray, 1866)
Fig. 36 C–D
Scotophilus welwitschii Gray, 1866: 211.
* Myotis welwitschi venustus (Matschie, 1899).
The validity of the subspecies venustus was already doubted prior to Hayman et al. (1966), e.g., by Kershaw (1922: 181) and Frechkop (1954: 19), and this view was later confirmed by Kock (1967: 324).
In the DRC, Hayman et al. (1966: 52, map 71) reported this species from Nord-Kivu Province in the east and from the southeastern provinces of Haut-Lomami, Haut-Katanga and Lualaba. More recently, it has been found in Rwanda and Burundi. Happold (2013 ao: 709) gives a patchy distribution in eastern and southern Africa, from Ethiopia to the RSA, with an extension into the southern part of the DRC and Angola. She also plotted two separate localities in Guinea and Cameroon.
Notes
Published as part of Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on page 80, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Genus
- Myotis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Scotophilinae
- Species
- welwitschii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myotis welwitschii (Gray, 1866) 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.
- Kershaw P. S. 1922. On a collection of mammals from Chiromo and Cholo, Ruo, Nyasaland, made by Mr. Rodney C. Wood, with field-notes by the collector. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 9, 10 (56): 177 - 192. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932308632761
- Frechkop S. 1954. Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba. Mission G. F. De Witte en collaboration avec W. Adam, A. Janssens, L. Van Meel et R. Verheyen (1946 - 1949). Fasc. 14. Mammiferes, Chiroptera. Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge, Bruxelles: 11 - 22. Available from http: // biblio. naturalsciences. be / rbins-publications / institut-des-parcs-nationaux-du-congo / exploration-du-parcnational-de-lupemba / 14 - 1954 - mission-zending-g-f-de-witte-mammiferes [accessed 29 Nov. 2017].
- Kock D. 1967. Ein Neunachweis von Myotis welwitschi und der Status von Myotis venustus (Mammalia, Chiroptera). Senckenbergiana Biologica 48 (5 / 6): 319 - 325.
- Happold M. & Happold D. 2013. Mammals of Africa Volume IV. Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats. Bloomsbury, London.