Nycteris nana K. Andersen 1912

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 : 393

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Nycteris nana K. Andersen 1912 View in CoL

Nycteris nana K. Andersen 1912 View in CoL , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 10: 547.

Type Locality: Equatorial Guinea, Rio Muni, Benito River.

Vernacular Names: Dwarf Slit-faced Bat.

Synonyms: Nycteris tristis Allen and Lawrence 1936 .

Distribution: Côte d’Ivoire to NE Angola, W Kenya, and SW Sudan. A record from Tanzania actually represents intermedia (J. Fahr, pers. comm.).

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

Discussion: arge species group. Includes tristis ; see Koopman (1975) and Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1985).

Allen, G. M., and B. Lawrence. 1936. Scientific results of an expedition to rainforest regions in eastern Africa. III. Mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 79: 31 - l 26.

Andersen, K. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Vol. 1. Megachiroptera. Second ed. British Museum (Natural History), London, 854 pp.

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

Van Cakenberghe, V., and F. De Vree. 1985. Systematics of African Nycteris (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Pp. 53 - 90, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on African vertebrates: Systematics, phylogeny and evolutionary ecology (K. - L. Schuchmann, ed.). Zoologisches Forschingsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, 585 pp.