Casinycteris ophiodon (Pohle, 1943)

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 : 365

Casinycteris ophiodon (Pohle, 1943)

A single specimen was recorded by Coe (1975) from Mt Nimba in Liberia, and a further 10 individuals were reported by Wolton et al. (1982). Hence, the proportion of this species as a function of the total number of fruit bats captured is typically very low: 0 (n = 247 fruit bats; Verschuren, 1977), 0.5% (n = 199; Coe, 1975) and 1.0% (n = 979; Wolton et al., 1982). This species has not been recorded at Mt Nimba since then. We follow Hassanin (2014) in placing this species in the genus Casinycteris .