Micropteropus pusillus (Peters, 1868)

Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh & Denys, Christiane, 2016, An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity, Acta Chiropterologica 18 (2), pp. 359-375 : 364

Micropteropus pusillus (Peters, 1868)

This was the most commonly captured fruit bat in this study, yet it was not reported from any of the older surveys in the region ( Coe, 1975; Verschuren, 1977; Wolton et al., 1982). The first published mention of the occurrence of this species at Mt Nimba was by Denys et al. (2013). However, it has been drawn to our attention that two specimens (SMF 87661 and 87682, deposited in the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt) of this species

were captured by Wulf Gatter in 1982 and 1988 on the Liberian side of Mt Nimba (Jakob Fahr, in litt.), showing that it had been present in this region at least since the late 1980s. It was captured inside and outside of forested habitats on both Liberian and Guinean sides of the mountain from 500 m to 1,350 m a.s.l.