A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country
Author
Monadjem, Ara
All Out Africa Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland
ara@uniswacc.uniswa.sz
Author
Schoeman, M. Corrie
School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, Republic of South Africa
Author
Reside, April
All Out Africa, P. O. Box 153, Lobamba, Swaziland
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P Io, Dorothea V.
Département d’Ecologie et Evolution, Université de Lausanne, Biophore 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Stoffberg, Samantha
Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X 1, Matieland, Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa
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Bayliss, Julian
Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust (MMCT), P. O. Box 139, Mulanje, Malawi & Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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(Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D.
AEON - Africa Earth Observatory Network, Departments of Geological Sciences, and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, Republic of South Africa
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Curran, Michael
Institute of Biogeography, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, CH- 4056, Switzerland Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, HIF C 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15, CH- 8093 Zurich, Switzerland Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, Republic of South Africa Department of Ecology and Resource Management, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Venda, Private Bag X 5050, Thohoyandou, 0950, Republic of South Africa Corresponding author: E-mail: ara @ uniswacc. uniswa. sz
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Kopp, Mirjam
Institute of Biogeography, University of Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, CH- 4056, Switzerland Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, HIF C 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15, CH- 8093 Zurich, Switzerland Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, Republic of South Africa Department of Ecology and Resource Management, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Venda, Private Bag X 5050, Thohoyandou, 0950, Republic of South Africa Corresponding author: E-mail: ara @ uniswacc. uniswa. sz
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Taylor, Peter J.
Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, HIF C 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15, CH- 8093 Zurich, Switzerland 11 Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, Republic of South Africa
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Acta Chiropterologica
2010
2010-12-01
12
2
371
391
journal article
21491
10.3161/150811010X537963
d8534224-63f8-4837-bff7-f3639a531b3d
1733-5329
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Nycteris thebaica
E. Geoffroy 1813
Six specimens were recorded from four sites in central
Mozambique
. This species can easily be confused with
N. macrotis
but is slightly smaller and more gracile (see above), and has a pyriform tragus (
Monadjem
et al.
, 2010
).
Field measurements: FA (adult male) 45.9 ± 1.77 (43.9–47.8, 4); Bm (adult male) 9.3 ± 1.50 (8.0– 11.0, 4); FA (adult female) 47.1 ± 0.76 (46.6–48.0, 3); Bm (adult female) 10.3 ± 1.04 (9.5–11.5, 3). Ear length of a single male was 29.3.