Nycteris major 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 major K. Andersen 1912 View in CoL

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

Type Locality: Cameroon, Ja (= Dja) River.

Vernacular Names: Dja Slit-faced Bat.

Synonyms: Nycteris avakubia J. A. Allen 1917 .

Distribution: Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Dem. Rep. Congo, and Zambia.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Vulnerable.

Discussion: arge species group. Includes avakubia ; see Koopman (1965) and Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1985).

References

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. 1965. Status of forms described or recorded by J. A. Allen in The American Museum Congo Expedition Collection of Bats . American Museum Novitates, 2219: 1 - 34.

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.