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<mods:title>Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Decher, Jan</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Hoffmann, Anke</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Kadjo, Blaise</mods:namePart>
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Fifteen individuals of this vespertilionid were captured in lowland closed evergreen forest at FC in the canopy net over a creek. This species was not captured during the 2002 RAP (Fahr and Ebigbo, 2004), but the 2003 RAP reported it from “gallery forest of the Kpogo River” at Mount Béro (
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Fahr 
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), and these authors also mentioned unpublished museum records from Ziéla, Mount Nimba, and one specimen from Sérédou, Ziama as being the first records from 
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. Monadjem and Fahr (2007) also mention three specimens in the Smithsonian Institution (
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). This species is known to roost in crevices under tree bark as well as in roofs of houses (
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Fahr, 2013 
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). Our 15 captures from FC point to a substantial roost somewhere upstream towards the Foko Ridge. According to 
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Fahr (2013 
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these specimens belong to the subspecies 
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M. m. 
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Least Concern. Considered widespread and not rare but the population trend is unknown (
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