Nycteris hispida (Schreber 1775)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Nycteridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 391-394 : 392

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scientific name	Nycteris hispida (Schreber 1775)
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[Vespertilio] hispidus Schreber 1775 , Die Saugethiere, Vol. 1: 169.

Type Locality: Senegal.

Vernacular Names: Hairy Slit-faced Bat.

Synonyms: Nycteris daubentoni E. Geoffroy 1813 ; Nycteris martini Fraser 1834 ; Nycteris pallida J. A. Allen 1917 ; Nycteris poensis Gray 1843 ; Nycteris villosa Peters 1852 .

Distribution: Senegal, Gambia, and extreme S Mauritania to Somalia and south to Angola, C Mozambique, Botswana, and Malawi; Zanzibar; Bioko ( Equatorial Guinea). A South African record is dubious; see Cotterill (1996).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: hispida species group. Revised by Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1993 b); also see Koopman (1975). Does not include aurita . Several subspecies are often recognized, but these do not seem justified; see Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1993 b).