Mops niangarae J. A. Allen, 1917

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 236

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scientific name	Mops niangarae J. A. Allen, 1917
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Mops niangarae J. A. Allen, 1917 View in CoL . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 37:468.

TYPE LOCALITY: Zaire, Niangara .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the holotype.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Mops . Peterson (1972) included this species in trevori ; Hayman and Hill (1971) listed it as a subspecies of Tadarida congica (= Mops congicus ). Freeman (1981: 111, 159) considered it a distinct species pending collection of additional specimens.

References

Freeman, P. W. 1981. A multivariate study of the family Molossidae (Mammalia: Chiroptera): Morphology, ecology, evolution. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 7: 1 - 173.

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.

Peterson, R. L. 1972. Systematic status of the African molossid bats Tadarida congica, T. niangarae and T. trevori. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences, Contribution, 85: 1 - 32.