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Scotophilus nux Thomas 1904

  • 1. 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, Pretoria, South Africa & Hipposideros lamottei & Corresponding author: E-mail: ara @ uniswa. sz
  • 2. Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, South Africa
  • 3. UMR 7205, CNRS, MNHN, EPHE, Sorbonne Université, Paris VI, Institut de Systématique et Evolution de la Biodiversité, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France

Description

Scotophilus nux Thomas, 1904

This species was previously recorded from Liberian Nimba as Scotophilus dinganii (Wolton et al., 1982). During this survey, two specimens were collected over water in disturbed forest on the Liberian side, at 520 m a.s.l.

Notes

Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh & Denys, Christiane, 2016, An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity, pp. 359-375 in Acta Chiropterologica 18 (2) on page 371, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.005, http://zenodo.org/record/3942481

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Scotophilus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Thomas
Species
nux
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Scotophilus nux Thomas, 1904 sec. Monadjem, Richards & Denys, 2016