Scotophilus nux Thomas, 1904

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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scientific name	Scotophilus nux Thomas, 1904
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Scotophilus nux Thomas, 1904 View in CoL View at ENA . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 13:208.

TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon, Efulen .

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone to Kenya.

COMMENTS: S. nux has been most often recognized as a subspecies of nigrita , when nigrita was used for the species now called dinganii ; see Allen (1939), Rosevear (1965), and Hayman and Hill (1971:50). Koopman et al. (1978:4-5) listed it as a subspecies of leucogaster .

References

Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.

Hayman, R. W., and J. E. Hill. 1971. Order Chiroptera. Part 2. Pp. 1 - 73, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

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

Rosevear, D. R. 1965. The bats of West Africa. British Museum (Natural History), London, 418 pp.