Mops (Mops) demonstrator
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
Mops (Mops) demonstrator (Thomas, 1903)
Fig. 28 A–B
Nyctinomus demonstrator Thomas, 1903: 504.
* Tadarida (Mops) demonstrator (Thomas, 1903).
For this species, Hayman et al. (1966: 65) mention a number of localities in or near the Garamba National Park (Haut-Uélé Province). A number of specimens they mentioned as Tadarida (Mops) niveiventer from Keyberg (near Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga Province) were re-identified by R.L. Peterson (Wim Wendelen, pers. comm.). This is rather strange as Fahr (2013n: 510) indicates that demonstrator only occurs in the northeastern part of the DRC, northwards along the River Nile to northern South Sudan and along the Blue Nile in Sudan. He also plotted a number of individual localities in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Burkina Faso. All of these are north of the equator. However, there is one additional specimen from Mushe, Rwanda (RMCA 37983), which more or less bridges the gap between Haut- Uélé and Haut-Katanga. Based on climatic data, the SDM map makes the extension towards Rwanda conceivable, but a further expansion to Haut-Katanga is still dubious.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Molossidae
- Genus
- Mops
- Species
- demonstrator
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mops (Mops) demonstrator (Thomas, 1903) sec. Cakenberghe, Tungaluna, Akawa, Seamark & Verheyen, 2017
References
- Thomas O. 1903. Three new bats from the Cameroons, discovered by Mr. G. L. Bates. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 7, 12 (72): 633 - 635. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930309487045
- 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.
- Fahr J. 2013 n. Tadarida demonstrator Mongalla Free-tailed Bat. In: Happold M. & Happold D. (eds) Mammals of Africa Volume IV. Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats: 509 - 511. Bloomsbury Publishing, London.