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
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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
Miniopterus inflatus
Thomas, 1903
Miniopterus inflatus
Thomas, 1903: 634
.
COMMON NAME. — English: Greater Long-fingered bat. French: Grand minioptère africain
HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — We did not examine any specimen attributed to this species. This species was also not recorded during our field surveys, but has been signalled in the Mount
Cameroon
Highlands by
Eisentraut (1956
,
1963
). In Liberian Mount Nimba, it was recorded from
500 m
to
1000 m
a.s.l. in a variety of forested and disturbed habitats (
Monadjem
et al.
2016
). According to
Monadjem
et al.
(2010)
, it is recorded in a number of savannah habitats where it roosts in caves.