Hypsugo crassulus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany & Corresponding author: E-mail: J. Decher @ zfmk. de
- 2. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
- 3. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany & Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Chariteplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- 4. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, 4240 Campus Dr., Lima, OH 45804, USA
- 5. Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 22 BP 582 Abidjan 22, Côte d'Ivoire
- 6. Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany
- 7. All Out Africa Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland & Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag 20, Hatfield 0028, Pretoria, South Africa
Description
Hypsugo crassulus (Thomas, 1904)
New material
ZFMK 2008.0299, ♀, FC, 8 March 2008; ZFMK 2008.0030, ♂, WSV, 12 December 2008.
Five specimens of this tiny vespertilionid were captured at Simandou, two at FC and three at WSV. One female from FC carried an embryo of 14 mm crown-rump length. In the consensus topology (Fig. 3) our specimens grouped with sequences labelled H. c. bellieri from Mount Nimba, Liberia, and H. eisentrauti from Côte d’Ivoire in Monadjem et al. (2013 b) but are now labelled H. crassulus (see Appendix for cross reference). Simmons (2005) considers bellieri to be a synonym of crassulus and she limits eisentrauti to the Cameroon highlands eastwards to Somalia, Kenya and Rwanda. Fahr (2013 d) discusses the species as Pipistrellus crassulus with specimens from seven localities in Guinea, Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire as belonging to the subspecies P. c. bellieri. We tentatively consider the entire Hypsugo clade shown in Fig. 3 as H. crassulus.
Conservation status
Least Concern (as Pipistrellus crassulus). Considered “widespread and not rare” but the population trend is unknown (IUCN, 2015).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZFMK
- Material sample ID
- ZFMK 2008.0030 , ZFMK 2008.0299
- Event date
- 2008-03-08 , 2008-12-12
- Verbatim event date
- 2008-03-08 , 2008-12-12
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Genus
- Hypsugo
- Species
- crassulus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hypsugo crassulus (Thomas, 1904) sec. Decher, Hoffmann, Schaer, Orris, Kadjo, Astrin, Monadjem & Hutterer, 2015
References
- MONADJEM, A., L. RICHARDS, P. J. TAYLOR, and S. STOFFBERG. 2013 b. High diversity of pipistrelloid bats (Vespertilionidae: Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus) in a West African rainforest with the description of a new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 167: 191 - 207.
- SIMMONS, N. B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 312 - 529, in Mammal species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference, 3 rd edition (D. E. WILSON and D. M. REEDER, eds.). The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2142 pp.
- FAHR, J. 2013 d. Pipistrellus crassulus Broad-headed pipistrelle. Pp. 617 - 619, in The mammals of Africa, Volume IV: hedgehogs, shrews and bats (M. HAPPOLD and D. C. D. HAPPOLD, eds.). Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 800 pp.
- IUCN 2015. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. Available at http: // www. iucnredlist. org. Downloaded on 12 June 2015.