Scotophilus leucogaster (Cretzschmar, 1826)

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 227

Scotophilus leucogaster (Cretzschmar, 1826) . In Riippell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afr., Zool. Säugeth., p. 71.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sudan, Kordofan, Brunnen Nedger (Nedger Well) .

DISTRIBUTION: Mauritania and Senegal to N Kenya and Ethiopia.

SYNONYMS: altilis , flavigaster, murinoflavus, nucella .

COMMENTS: Does not include damarensis , see Koopman (1986); but see C. B. Robbins et al. (1985). Includes nucella ; but see C. B. Robbins et al. (1985). For scope of this species see Koopman (1975:414-416; as nigrita ) and Koopman et al. (1978:4-5). However, Robbins (1978:212-213) has shown that the name nigrita was misapplied to another species, for which the next available name was dinganii , and which would be included in leucogaster if Koopman's (1975) reasoning were followed. However, Schütter et al. (1980) listed dinganii as distinct from leucogaster , as did C. B. Robbins et al. (1985). See Koopman (1986).