Scotophilus dinganii (A. Smith, 1833)

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353060

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7291281

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scientific name

Scotophilus dinganii (A. Smith, 1833)
status

 

Scotophilus dinganii (A. Smith, 1833) View in CoL View at ENA . S. Afr. Quart. J., 2:59.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Port Natal (= Durban) .

DISTRIBUTION: Senegal and Sierra Leone east to Somalia and S Yemen and south to South Africa and Namibia.

SYNONYMS: colias , herero, planirostris , pondoensis (see C. B. Robbins et al., 1985).

COMMENTS: Placed in leucogaster by Koopman (1975:414-416, as nigrita ; 1986) and Koopman et al. (1978:4-5); but see also Schütter et al. (1980).

Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444.

Koopman, K. F., R. E. Mumford, and J. F. Heisterberg. 1978. Bat records from Upper Volta, west Africa. American Museum Novitates, 2643: 1 - 6.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Vespertilionidae

Genus

Scotophilus