Triaenops afer Peters 1877
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
Triaenops afer Peters 1877
Benda and Vallo (2009) restrict T. persicus Dobson 1871 within the Middle East, so we classify this African species as T. afer Peters 1877. This species was recorded at eight sites in southern, central and northern Mozambique. Fifteen individuals were captured at the entrance to a cave system in the Cheringoma plateau suggesting that a large roosting colony occurs there. Another large colony occurs just south of the Save River. However, the core of its Southern African distribution is central and northern Mozambique, with marginal intrusion into Zambia and Zimbabwe and south of the Save River. Echolocation calls are sexually dimorphic: peak echolocation frequencies of males ranged between 71–75 kHz (n = 7) and those of females between 82–85 kHz (ANABAT, n = 11). In Malawi, males called at 72–75 kHz and females at 80–85 kHz (D. C. D. Happold and M. Happold, unpublished, cited in Taylor et al., 2005).
Field measurements: FA (adult male) 54.1 ± 1.18 (51.7–55.8, 16); Bm (adult male) 12.1 ± 1.00 (10.0– 13.0, 11); FA (adult female) 52.4 ± 1.34 (49.8–55.2, 16); Bm (adult female) 10.8 ± 1.42 (8.0–12.5, 9).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Peters
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Hipposideridae
- Genus
- Triaenops
- Species
- afer
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Triaenops afer Peters, 1877 sec. Monadjem, Schoeman, Reside, Io, Stoffberg, Bayliss, Cotterill, Curran, Kopp & Taylor, 2010
References
- BENDA, P., and P. VALLO. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the genus Triaenops (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) with description of a new species from southern Arabia and definitions of a new genus and tribe. Folia Zoologica, 58 (Monograph 1): 1 - 45.
- TAYLOR, P. J., C. GEISELMAN, P. KABOCHI, B. AGWANDA, and S. TURNER. 2005. Intraspecific variation in the calls of some African bats (Order Chiroptera). Durban Museum Novitates, 30: 24 - 37.