Nycteris hispida (Schreber 1775)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Nycteridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 391-394 : 392

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scientific name	Nycteris hispida (Schreber 1775)
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Nycteris hispida (Schreber 1775) View in CoL

[Vespertilio] hispidus Schreber 1775 View in CoL , Die Saugethiere, Vol. 1: 169.

Type Locality: Senegal.

Vernacular Names: Hairy Slit-faced Bat.

Synonyms: Nycteris daubentoni E. Geoffroy 1813 ; Nycteris martini Fraser 1834 ; Nycteris pallida J. A. Allen 1917 ; Nycteris poensis Gray 1843 ; Nycteris villosa Peters 1852 .

Distribution: Senegal, Gambia, and extreme S Mauritania to Somalia and south to Angola, C Mozambique, Botswana, and Malawi; Zanzibar; Bioko ( Equatorial Guinea). A South African record is dubious; see Cotterill (1996).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: hispida species group. Revised by Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1993 b); also see Koopman (1975). Does not include aurita . Several subspecies are often recognized, but these do not seem justified; see Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1993 b).

References

Cotterill, F. P. D. 1996. New distribution records of bats of the families Nycteridae, Rhinolophidae and Vespertilionidae (Microchiroptera: Mammalia) in Zimbabwe. Arnoldia Zimbabwe, 10: 71 - 89.

Gray, J. E. 1843. List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 216 pp.

Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444.

Peters, W. C. H. 1852. Reise nach Mossambique. I. Saugethiere. Druck & Verlag, Berlin, 202 pp.

Van Cakenberghe, V., and F. De Vree. 1993 b. Systematics of African Nycteris (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Part II. The Nycteris hispida group. Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 44: 299 - 332.