A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation Author Decher, Jan Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) and Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) j. decher @ leibniz-zfmk. de Author Norris, Ryan W. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, OH 45804 (USA) ryanwnorris @ gmail. com ryanwnorris@gmail.com Author Abedi-Lartey, Michael Golden Veroleum (Liberia) Inc., Monrovia Office: Unit 102, Wazni Building, 13 th Street and Tubman Boulevard, Sinkor, Monrovia (Liberia) Author Oppong, James Wildlife Division, Forestry Commission, P. O. Box M 239, Accra (Ghana) Author Hutterer, Rainer Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) Author Weinbrenner, Martin Philosophenweg 12, 77654 Offenburg (Germany) Author Koch, Martin Department of Biogeography, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, D- 54296 Trier (Germany) Author Podsiadlowski, Lars Mammal Section, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn (Germany) Author Kilpatrick, C. William Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Burlington, Vermont 05405 (USA) wkilpatr @ uvm. edu wkilpatr@uvm.edu text Zoosystema 2021 2021-05-20 43 14 253 281 journal article 6523 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a14 b1eb9973-f581-4a60-9c87-68b7ae4b3591 1638-9387 4783781 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7008A933-FE5E-405E-BBAD-8C06D2A8807D Scotophilus livingstonii Brooks & Bickham, 2014 Scotophilus livingstonii Brooks & Bickham, 2014: 11 . COMMON NAME. — Livingstone’s House Bat. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Agumatsa (Wli Waterfall) • 1 ♀ ; SMF 92137; caught on 11.VIII.2001 . REMARK Originally identified as Scotophilus dinganii (A. Smith, 1833) due to its bright yellow ventral side side and its forearm length of 57.8 mm , the West African form, which also occurs in western Kenya , has been recently renamed S. livingstonii based on phylogenetic and morphological distinct S. dinganii -like clades ( Brooks & Bickham 2014 ). Our specimen was caught in a net set across the Agumatsa River flanked by secondary forest and nearby small cassava fields. Other Ghana-Togo Highlands specimens are known from Odomi Jongo, 12 Miles E Nkwanta in Ghana (USNM 424888) and from Atakpamé and Ezimé in Togo ( Robbins 1980 ; Robbins et al. 1985 ). The species was also caught at three locations on the Accra Plains ( Decher 1997a and USNM, as S. dinganii ) and seems to be most commonly associated with Guinea savanna, forest savanna mosaic, and high forest edge. Records from Côte d’Ivoire are all from the northern tree savanna ( Fahr 1996 , as S. dinganii ). This species also seems to adapt to rooftops and thatched huts for its roosts. CONSERVATION STATUS. — The conservation classification of S. livingstonii on the IUCN Red List is “Least Concern”.