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Rousettus aegyptiacus

Authors/Creators

  • 1. All Out Africa Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland
  • 2. School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, Republic of South Africa
  • 3. All Out Africa, P. O. Box 153, Lobamba, Swaziland
  • 4. Département d'Ecologie et Evolution, Université de Lausanne, Biophore 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 5. Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 1, Matieland, Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa
  • 6. Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust (MMCT), P. O. Box 139, Mulanje, Malawi & Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • 7. AEON - Africa Earth Observatory Network, Departments of Geological Sciences, and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, Republic of South Africa
  • 8. Institute of Biogeography, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, CH- 4056, Switzerland Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, HIF C 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15, CH- 8093 Zurich, Switzerland Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, Republic of South Africa Department of Ecology and Resource Management, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Venda, Private Bag X 5050, Thohoyandou, 0950, Republic of South Africa Corresponding author: E-mail: ara @ uniswacc. uniswa. sz
  • 9. Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, HIF C 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15, CH- 8093 Zurich, Switzerland 11 Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, Republic of South Africa

Description

Rousettus aegyptiacus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1810)

This species was recorded at four sites in central and northern Mozambique. A large colony was located in a cave system on the Cheringoma plateau (Appendix I).

Field measurements: FA (adult male) 94.6 ± 1.67 (92.3–98.5, 11); Bm (adult male) 135.8 ± 7.08 (122– 149, 11); FA (adult female) 96.8 (96.2–97.3, 2); Bm (adult female) 119 (102–136, 2).

Notes

Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, pp. 371-391 in Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2) on page 377, DOI: 10.3161/150811010X537963, http://zenodo.org/record/3944583

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/2431452B35699A34FEA5C0B4AA7EFDFC

Is part of
Journal article: 10.3161/150811010X537963 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3944583 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/D8083D53356E9A33FFF4C068A82CFFB7 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/2431452B35699A34FEA5C0B4AA7EFDFC (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/165088642 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/21491/taxon/2431452B35699A34FEA5C0B4AA7EFDFC.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Pteropodidae
Genus
Rousettus
Species
aegyptiacus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rousettus aegyptiacus (Saint-Hilaire, 1810) sec. Monadjem, Schoeman, Reside, Io, Stoffberg, Bayliss, Cotterill, Curran, Kopp & Taylor, 2010