Nycteris grandis Peters 1865

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Nycteridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 391-394 : 392

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scientific name	Nycteris grandis Peters 1865
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Nycteris grandis Peters 1865 , Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1865: 358.

Type Locality: " Guinea ".

Vernacular Names: Large Slit-faced Bat.

Synonyms: Nycteris baikii Gray 1866 ; Nycteris marica Kershaw 1923 ; Nycteris proxima Lönnberg and Gyldenstolpe 1925 .

Distribution: Senegal to Dem. Rep. Congo, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Mozambique; Zanzibar and Pemba.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: hispida species group. Reviewed by Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1993 b). N. marica is sometimes recognized as a distinct savanna subspecies, but this does not seem justified based on morphology; see Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1993 b). See Hickey and Dunlop (2000).