Annotated checklist of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Mount Cameroon, southwestern Cameroon Author Mongombe, Aaron Manga Department of Biological Sciences; Faculty of Science; University of Maroua, Cameroon, P. O. Box 814, Maroua (Cameroon) mangajes @ gmail. com (corresponding author) mangajes@gmail.com Author Fils, Eric Moise Bakwo Department of Biological Sciences; Faculty of Science; University of Maroua, Cameroon, P. O. Box 814, Maroua (Cameroon) filsbkw 27 @ gmail. com Author Tamesse, Joseph Lebel Department of Biological sciences, Higher Teacher’s Training College, University of Yaoundé I, P. O Box 812, Yaoundé (Cameroon) jltamesse @ yahoo. fr jltamesse@yahoo.fr text Zoosystema 2020 2020-09-24 42 24 483 514 journal article 9780 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a24 01351e5b-e27f-4b12-aa0f-ab91055f8af7 1638-9387 4060043 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4369E104-E14C-4436-9B57-6C38A6AEBE65 Mops (Xiphonycteris) nanulus J. A. Allen, 1917 ( Fig. 17 , Table 3 ) Mops (Allomops) nanulus J. A. Allen, 1917: 477 . COMMON NAME. — English: Dwarf Free-tailed Bat. French:Tadaride naine. FIG. 17. — Mops (Xiphonycteris) nanulus J. A. Allen, 1917 . Photo: © Aaron Manga Mongombe. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 5 specimens (see Table 1 ). ORIGINAL DATA. — 5 individuals of the Dwarf free-tailed bat were mist-netted over a slow flowing stream in a fallow farmland, at an altitude 470 m a.s.l. These specimens were the first recorded in the Mount Cameroon area. We did not examine any museum specimens attributed to this species. DIAGNOSIS. — The forearm measurement of this species is 28.7- 30.2 mm ( Table 3 ), which concurs with measurements provided by Happold (2013h) as Tadarida nanula . The dorsal and flank pelage is brown, contrasting with creamy-white chest and belly ( Fig. 17 ). Ears are large with large flap of skin joining the inner surfaces. The wing membranes are whitish, and each jaw possesses two lower incisors. External measurements ( Table 3 ) and skull measurements ( Table 4 ) of one preserved bat are within the range given by Happold (2013h as Tadarida nanula ) . HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — The Dwarf free-tailed bat is widely, but patchily, recorded in West, Central and East Africa from Sierra Leone and Guinea through Cameroon , to western Ethiopia and southward to Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Happold 2013h as Tadarida nanula ). It is principally associated with lowland closed forest habitat ( Happold 1987 ; Monadjem et al. 2010 ). It has also been recorded in mesic savannah ( Kingdon 1974 ), where it roosts in small colonies in roofs of thatched huts and tree hollows ( Happold 1987 ).