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Molossidae

Description

Molossidae

Chaerephon jobimena Goodman & Cardiff, 2004: 230. “ Madagascar: Province d’Antsiranana, Réserve Spéciale d’Ankarana, 2.6 km E Andrafiabe, in forest near Andrafiabe Cave, 12°55.9’S, 49°03.4’E, about 50 m a.s.l.”. [LC]

Chaerephon tomensis Juste & Ibáñez, 1993: 901. “Praia das Conchas, 3 km NW Guadalupe, São Tomé Island, Republic of São Tomé and Principe (0°24'N, 6°37'E)”. [EN]

Mops bakarii Stanley, 2008: 184. “ Tanzania, Pemba Island, Kaskazini Region, Ngezi Forest, Kipangani village, 4.96487ºS, 39.71456ºE, 12 m a.s.l., in attic of hospital”.

Mormopterus francoismoutoui Goodman, Jansen van Vuuren, Ratrimomanarivo, Probst & Bowie 2008: 1318. “ La Réunion, Commune de La Possession, Pont de Balthazar, 2.2 km SSW La Possession, 20º56.732'S, 55°19.848'E, 40 m ”.

Notes

Published as part of Hoffmann, Michael, Grubb, Peter, Groves, Colin P., Hutterer, Rainer, Straeten, Erik Van Der, Simmons, Nancy & Bergmans, Wim, 2009, A synthesis of African and western Indian Ocean Island mammal taxa (Class: Mammalia) described between 1988 and 2008: an update to Allen (1939) and Ansell (1989), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 2205 on page 20, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189726

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Molossidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Goodman, S. M. & Cardiff, S. G. (2004) A new species of Chaerephon (Molossidae) from Madagascar with notes on other members of the family. Acta Chiropterologica, 6, 227 - 248.
  • Goodman, S. M., Jansen van Vuuren, B., Ratrimomanarivo, F., Probst, J. - M. & Bowie, R. K. (2008) Specific status of populations in the Mascarene Islands referred to Mormopterus acetabulosus (Chiroptera: Molossidae), with description of a new species. Journal of Mammalogy, 89, 1316 - 1327.