An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity Monadjem, Ara Richards, Leigh Denys, Christiane Acta Chiropterologica 2016 2016-12-01 18 2 359 375 5JRCV Thomas, 1908 Thomas 1908 [216,699,506,532] Mammalia Molossidae Mops Animalia Chiroptera 9 368 Chordata subSpecies brachypterus leonis  This species was not previously recorded from Nimba. During this survey, this species was sparsely captured flying above water at small forest streams on both the Liberian and Guinean sides of the mountain, at low altitudes 450 to 550 ma.s.l. The taxon  leonisis widely distribution in the Afrotropical forest zone from Sierra Leoneto eastern Democratic Republic of Congo( DRC) and may be distinct from the taxon  brachypterus, which is restricted to coastal East Africa and western Uganda(Thorn and Kerbis Peterhans, 2009). The relationship between these two taxa needs to be investigated.