Scotonycteris zenkeri Matschie, 1894

Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh & Denys, Christiane, 2016, An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity, Acta Chiropterologica 18 (2), pp. 359-375 : 365

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.005
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4341786
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BD87F4-3F77-6D42-FF03-FD3EFD5EFBF9
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scientific name	Scotonycteris zenkeri Matschie, 1894
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Scotonycteris zenkeri Matschie, 1894 View in CoL

Recorded from Mt Nimba in Liberia by Coe (1975), Verschuren (1977), Wolton et al. (1982), and A. Forbes-Watson (A. Monadjem, personal observation), but has not been recorded anywhere on Mt Nimba since then. The proportion of this species as a function of the total number of fruit bats captur- ed is typically low: 3.2% (n = 247 fruit bats; Verschuren, 1977), 1.5% (n = 199; Coe, 1975) and 2.7% (n = 979; Wolton et al., 1982), but appreciably higher than for the previous species ( C. ophiodon ).