Micropteropus pusillus (Peters, 1867)

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 : 261-262

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.003

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4336004

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039C0121-FFFD-FFD5-7447-FB261FA153E8

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Felipe

scientific name

Micropteropus pusillus (Peters, 1867)
status

 

Micropteropus pusillus (Peters, 1867) View in CoL

New material

ZFMK 2008.0277 About ZFMK , ♀, W1 ; ZFMK 2008.0321 About ZFMK +0322, ♀♀, W1 ; ZFMK 2008.0277 About ZFMK , ♂, all 25 February 2008 ; ZFMK 2009.0019 About ZFMK , ♀, PF, 10 December 2008 .

With 130 individuals captured at all localities, with the exception of FC and TO, this was the most common bat species captured in this study and dominated the high forest sites. During the 2002 RAP 19 individuals of this species were recorded at W2 and BK (Fahr and Ebigbo, 2004). At Mt. Béro only one individual was captured during the 2003 RAP ( Fahr et al., 2006). Denys et al. (2013) documented it at Guinean Mount Nimba. Weber and Fahr (2007 b) mention several occurences in the Fouta Djallon and also summarized many earlier captures in that region. In Côte d’Ivoire, Fahr (1996) found 69% of M. pusillus localities in savannah 18% in forestsavannah mosaic and 12% in the rainforest. The northernmost locality for M. pusillus was Bamako, Mali, and the highest altitude at which this bat was captured was 1,800 m at Mount Cameroon ( Eisentraut, 1973).

Conservation status

Least Concern; its population trend is considered stable ( IUCN, 2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Pteropodidae

Genus

Micropteropus

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