Annotated checklist of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Mount Cameroon, southwestern Cameroon
Author
Mongombe, Aaron Manga
Department of Biological Sciences; Faculty of Science; University of Maroua, Cameroon, P. O. Box 814, Maroua (Cameroon) mangajes @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
mangajes@gmail.com
Author
Fils, Eric Moise Bakwo
Department of Biological Sciences; Faculty of Science; University of Maroua, Cameroon, P. O. Box 814, Maroua (Cameroon) filsbkw 27 @ gmail. com
Author
Tamesse, Joseph Lebel
Department of Biological sciences, Higher Teacher’s Training College, University of Yaoundé I, P. O Box 812, Yaoundé (Cameroon) jltamesse @ yahoo. fr
jltamesse@yahoo.fr
text
Zoosystema
2020
2020-09-24
42
24
483
514
journal article
9780
10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a24
01351e5b-e27f-4b12-aa0f-ab91055f8af7
1638-9387
4060043
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4369E104-E14C-4436-9B57-6C38A6AEBE65
Doryrhina camerunensis
(
Eisentraut, 1956
)
Hipposideros camerunensis
Eisentraut, 1956: 526
.
COMMON NAME. — English:
Cameroon
Leaf-nosed Bat. French: Phyllorine du
Cameroun
.
MATERIAL
EXAMINED. —
14 specimens
.
Mount
Cameroon
area
•
4 ♀♀
,
5 ♂♂
,
5 specimens
;
Buea
;
4°09’00”N
,
9°12’00”E
;
1050 m
;
29.IV.1954
-
10.IV.1958
;
Martin Eisentraut
leg.; SMNS 5194 to 5917, 6580, 6581, 1853, 1854a, 1854b; ZFMK 1961.0641 to 0643, ZFMK 1963.0200; ZFMK 1979.0138
.
ORIGINAL
DATA. — We did not capture any individual attributed to this species.
HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — This species is considered a forestdependent species that inhabits montane and lowland forest (
Happold 2013e
as
Hipposideros camerunensis
). Indeed,
Eisentraut (1963)
documented this species in the montane forest of Mount
Cameroon
at an altitude of
1400 m
a.s.l. It has been recorded in two other localities in Africa: Shabunda in eastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo
and at the
Kakamega
Forest in western
Kenya
(
Mickleburgh
et al.
2019
). Being a forest-dependent species, it is probably threatened by ongoing forest degradation in its geographical range (
Mickleburgh
et al.
2008b
).
REMARK. — We use the generic name
Doryrhina
based on the revision by
Foley
et al.
(2017)
.