Neoromicia guineensis
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
Neoromicia guineensis (Bocage, 1889)
Fig. 44 A–B
Vesperus guineensis Bocage, 1889: 6.
The two specimens assigned to this species were collected by Herbert Lang and James Paul Chapin, and were reported by Allen (1917: 445) as belonging to Eptesicus minutus minutus (Temminck, 1835). Hayman et al. (1966: 47) refer to these specimens as “ Eptesicus minutus ”, indicating that the name minutus was used in a tentative sense. However Rosevear (1965: 255) pointed out that minutus Temminck, 1835 is a synonym of Eptesicus capensis. Koopman (1965: 15) tentatively identified these two specimens as Eptesicus pusillus, but Koopman (1975: 407) furthermore pointed out that pusillus was based on two sources: Leconte (1858) and Noack (1889). The former was found to be unidentifiable and the latter to be a synonym of Pipistrellus nanus. Koopman’s figure 39 indicates that the extralimital (to Sudan) specimen from northeastern DRC is considered to belong to Eptesicus guineensis.
Van Cakenberghe & Happold (2013d: 625) indicate that guineensis primarily occurs disjunctly north of the equator in a band from Senegal, Guinea, northern Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso, northern Togo and Benin, and in a second band on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, reaching to southern Chad. Furthermore, it occurs in a few smaller areas in central Sudan, the border between South Sudan and Uganda and in northwestern DRC. There are also some isolated records from Liberia, Nigeria, and western and eastern Ethiopia. The identifications of the specimens from Congo and southern DRC were found to be erroneous.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bocage
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Genus
- Neoromicia
- Species
- guineensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neoromicia guineensis (Bocage, 1889) sec. Cakenberghe, Tungaluna, Akawa, Seamark & Verheyen, 2017
References
- Bocage J. V. B. 1889. Mammiferes d'Angola et du Congo. Jornal de Sciencas mathematicas, physicas e naturaes (2) 1 (1): 8 - 32. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 4141036 # page / 5 / mode / 1 up [accessed 29 Nov. 2017].
- Allen J. A. 1917. Part I. Systematic List. In: Allen J. A., Lang H. & Chapin J. P. The American Museum Congo Expedition Collection of Bats. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37 (18): 405 - 478.
- 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.
- Rosevear D. R. 1965. The Bats of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London.
- Koopman K. F. 1965. Status of forms described or recorded by J. A. Allen in the " American Museum Congo Expedition of Bats ". American Museum Novitates 2219: 1 - 34. Available from http: // hdl. handle. net / 2246 / 4012 [accessed 29 Nov. 2017].
- Koopman K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 154 (4): 353 - 444. Available from http: // hdl. handle. net / 2246 / 609 [accessed 29 Nov. 2017].
- Noack T. 1889. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Saugethierfauna von Sud- und Sudwest-Afrika. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik 4: 94 - 261.
- Van Cakenberghe V. & Happold M. 2013 d. Pipistrellus guineensis Guinean Pipistrelle. In: Happold M. & Happold D. (eds) Mammals of Africa Volume IV. Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats: 624 - 625. Bloomsbury Publishing, London.