Myonycteris torquata (Dobson, 1878)

Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382), pp. 1-327 : 22

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.382

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FA508A12-9BDB-4A2B-9B0C-98FDD161443C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3861633

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03898787-9809-5A0B-D858-FE80D66BFC74

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scientific name

Myonycteris torquata (Dobson, 1878)
status

 

Myonycteris torquata (Dobson, 1878) View in CoL

Fig. 8 View Fig C–D

Cynonycteris torquata Dobson, 1878: 71 View in CoL , 76.

* Myonycteris wroughtoni Andersen, 1908: 450 .

Bergmans (1976) reviewed the genus Myonycteris and referred to Eisentraut (1963) and Brosset (1966a, b), who suggested that wroughtoni should be considered a subspecies of M. torquata , a view that was followed by Hayman & Hill (1971), Jones (1971) and Koopman (1975, 1994). Bergmans (1976: 203–204) found that wroughtoni differs from torquata mainly in its somewhat larger greatest skull and forearms lengths and by a larger relative M 2 length, and concluded that these differences are insufficient to warrant a subspecific division.

Hayman et al. (1966: 29, map 16) reported a total of nine specimens, all from the northeastern part of the DRC: provinces of Bas-Uélé, Haut-Uélé and Nord-Kivu. We were able to find data for 583 specimens from almost all over the DRC. The map provided by Thomas & Henry (2013c: 275) is quite different as they do not mention M. torquata from the provinces of Tshopo and Tshuapa. The reason for this is probably the extremely recent nature of the collections: from 2010 onwards, although the species was previously reported from Kisangani (Tshopo Province) by Ifuta et al. (1987: 113).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Pteropodidae

Genus

Myonycteris

Loc

Myonycteris torquata (Dobson, 1878)

Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik 2017
2017
Loc

Cynonycteris torquata

Cynonycteris torquata Dobson, 1878: 71
Loc

Myonycteris wroughtoni Andersen, 1908: 450

Myonycteris wroughtoni Andersen, 1908: 450
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