Nanonycteris veldkampii (Jentink, 1888)

Mongombe, Aaron Manga, Fils, Eric Moise Bakwo & Tamesse, Joseph Lebel, 2020, Annotated checklist of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Mount Cameroon, southwestern Cameroon, Zoosystema 42 (24), pp. 483-514 : 496

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a24

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4369E104-E14C-4436-9B57-6C38A6AEBE65

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4338113

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039A87C3-D54F-394A-1CEE-FAB0FB63411D

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scientific name

Nanonycteris veldkampii (Jentink, 1888)
status

 

Nanonycteris veldkampii (Jentink, 1888) View in CoL

( Fig. 9 View FIG , Table 3 View TABLE )

Epomophorus veldkampii Jentink, 1888: 52 View in CoL .

COMMON NAMES. — English: Veldkamp’s Dwarf Fruit Bat. French: Roussette naine de Veldkamp.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 14 specimens (including original data).

Mount Cameroon area • 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀; Victoria ; 4°00’46”N, 9°13’13”E; 136 m; 12.XII-21.XII.1968; Martin Eisentraut leg.; ZFMK 1969.0603 to 0607; 0786 GoogleMaps .

Other localities of Cameroon • 2 specimens; Nyasoso ; 4°49’42”N, 9°40’55”E; 1078 m, 10.XII.1966; Martin Eisentraut leg.; ZFMK 1969.0601, 0602 GoogleMaps .

ORIGINAL DATA. — The mainly nectar-feeding Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat was represented by six individuals ( Table 1 View TABLE ): one female was netted in a farmland at an altitude of 20 m a.s.l. and five other individuals (3 males and 2 females) were captured at another cultivated site at an altitude of 470 m a.s.l. ( Table 1 View TABLE ). The species was previously recorded from Mount Cameroon by Eisentraut (1973).

HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — This species is widely distributed in West Africa and western parts of Central Africa. It principally inhabits disturbed lowland rainforest, but has also been recorded in savannah habitats, gallery forest and isolated forest patches where it roosts singly or in pairs in the lower parts of shrub and trees among dense foliage ( Happold 1987). Thomas (1983) noted that this species shows migratory patterns with both sexes moving between forest and savannah habitats in West Africa.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Pteropodidae

Genus

Nanonycteris

Loc

Nanonycteris veldkampii (Jentink, 1888)

Mongombe, Aaron Manga, Fils, Eric Moise Bakwo & Tamesse, Joseph Lebel 2020
2020
Loc

Epomophorus veldkampii

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