Neoromicia guineensis (Bocage 1889)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 493

Neoromicia guineensis (Bocage 1889)

[Vesperus] guineensis Bocage 1889 , J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser. 2, 1: 6.

Type Locality: Guinea-Bissau, Bissau.

Vernacular Names: Guinean Serotine.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Neoromicia guineensis subsp. guineensis Bocage 1889

Subspecies Neoromicia guineensis subsp. rectitragus Wettstein 1916

Distribution: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, and Guinea to Ethiopia and NE Dem. Rep. Congo; perhaps Tanzania.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (nt) as Eptesicus guineensis .

Discussion: This species was called pusillus by Hayman and Hill (1971), but see Koopman (1975). Tanzanian record may represent somalicus .