Neoromicia nana (Peters, 1852)

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 : 370

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.005
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4341757
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scientific name	Neoromicia nana (Peters, 1852)
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This species was previously recorded from Liberian and Guinean Nimba (Wolton et al., 1982; Brosset, 1985; Fahr et al., 2006). During this survey, it was recorded widely in forested and forest edge habitats between 450 and 530 m a.s.l. This taxon is distributed across much of sub-Saharan Africa, occurring in a wide range of habitats and exhibiting significant morphological variation ( Happold, 2013 b) suggesting the presence of cryptic species. This species displayed rather large variation in size at Mt Nimba (forearm range 25.6–30.0 mm), but the significance of this has yet to be investigated.

References

BROSSET, A. 1985 [for 1984]. Chiropteres d'altitude du Mont Nimba (Guinee). Description d'une espece nouvelle, Hipposideros lamottei. Mammalia, 48: 545 - 555.

FAHR, J., B. A. DJOSSA, and H. VIERHAUS. 2006. Rapid assessment of bats (Chiroptera) in Dere, Diecke and Mt. Bero classified forests, southeastern Guinea; including a review of the distribution of bats in Guinee Forestiere. Pp. 168 - 180, 245 - 247, in A rapid biological assessment of three classified forests in Southeastern Guinea (H. E. WRIGHT, J. MCCULLOUGH, L. E. ALONSO, and M. S. DIALLO, eds.). Conservation International, RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, Washington, D. C., 40, 248 pp.

HAPPOLD, M. 2013 b. Pipistrellus nanus Banana pipistrellus (Banana bat). Pp. 639 - 642, in The mammals of Africa. Volume IV: Hedgehogs, shrews and bats (M. HAPPOLD and D. C. D. HAPPOLD, eds). Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 800 pp.