Lissonycteris goliath Bergmans 1997

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, Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2), pp. 371-391 : 371-391

Lissonycteris goliath Bergmans 1997

This taxon was originally described as a subspecies of L. angolensis ( Bergmans, 1997) , but was elevated to species rank by Cotterill (2001 a). This species was recorded from two sites in northern Mozambique, where it was relatively abundant in the foothills of Mount Namuli (nine specimens were captured at this site). It was previously known from the Zimbabwe border ( Smithers and Lobão Tello, 1976, where they referred to this species as L. angolensis ) and from Marromeu, central Mozambique ( Cotterill, 2001 a).

Field measurements: FA (adult female) 83.9 ± 2.11 (81.4–87.4, 6); Bm (adult female) 94.7 ± 5.32 (88–101, 6). Four juveniles had FA ranging 77.2– 83.5 and Bm 68–87; far larger than that for Myonycteris relicta (below).