Nycteris gambiensis (K. Andersen, 1912)

Decher, Jan, Hoffmann, Anke, Schaer, Juliane, N Orris, Ryan W., Kadjo, Blaise, Astrin, Jonas, Monadjem, Ara & Hutterer, Rainer, 2015, Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid, Acta Chiropterologica 17 (2), pp. 255-282 : 264

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.003
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4335952
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039C0121-FFF0-FFD7-77EC-FF211F74503F
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scientific name	Nycteris gambiensis (K. Andersen, 1912)
status

Treatment

Nycteris gambiensis (K. Andersen, 1912) View in CoL

New material

ZFMK 2008.0280, ♂, TO, 15 March 2008.

The single male caught in the forest at TO was the only nycterid bat detected in our study. The 2002 RAP also recorded one Nycteris grandis at W2 (Fahr and Ebigbo, 2004). The 2003 RAP verified N. arge from Mt. Béro and N. grandis from Diécké and mentions an unpublished record of N. gambiensis from Ziama ( Fahr et al., 2006). Weber and Fahr (2007 b) did not obtain new records of this bat from the Fouta Djallon Region but mentioned earlier records (Eisentraut and Knorr, 1957; Konstantinov et al., 2000), cautioning that these may have been confused with the very similar N. thebaica . There is a specimen from Parc National du Haute Niger in the ZFMK labelled N. thebaica ( ZFMK 1997.0450). Day roosts of N. gambiensis are in rock and ground caves, buildings, and roofs. Nycteris gambiensis is a species of the more humid savannahs and forestsavannah mosaic ( Fahr, 1996).

Conservation status

Least Concern. Population trend is unknown ( IUCN, 2015).