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 Mops (Xiphonycteris) thersites (Thomas, 1903) ( Table 3 ) Nyctinomus thersites Thomas, 1903: 634 . COMMON NAME. — English: Railer Mops Bat. French: Tadaride de Railer. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 2 specimens (including original data). Other localities of Cameroon • 1 specimen ; Bipindi; Zenker Georg August leg.; ZMB T10542 . ORIGINAL DATA. — During our field surveys, a single individual ( Table 1 ) attributed to this species was capture over a slow flowing stream at an altitude of 470 m a.s.l. This specimen was the first recorded from the Mount Cameroon area, but this species had previously been recorded from Sahelian zone of northern Cameroon ( Bakwo Fils et al. 2014 ). We did not examine any museum specimens. FIG. 18. — Miniopterus cf. minor Peters,1867 .Photo:© Aaron Manga Mongombe. DIAGNOSIS. — This specimen possesses the characteristic dark colored wings and conspicuous blackish flanks below wings between the leg and arm described by Patterson & Webala (2012) and Happold ( 2013i as Tadarida thersites ). Other features mentioned by Happold ( 2013i ) are also typical such as a forearm length of 35 to 42 mm . The external and skull measurements are provided in Table 3 and Table 4 , respectively. HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — This species has been widely recorded from much of western and Central Africa ( Happold 2013i ). It has been recorded mostly from lowland rainforest and secondary forest, but also occurs in mesic savannah and adjacent grassland habitats ( Monadjem et al. 2010 ; Happold 2013i ). It roosts in small groups in tree hollows, under roof of houses and cracks of building ( Happold 1987 ; Monadjem et al. 2010 ).