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 Miniopterus cf. minor Peters, 1867 ( Fig. 18 , Table 3 ) Miniopterus minor Peters, 1867: 870. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 11 specimens (see Table 1 ). ORIGINAL DATA. — A total of 11 individuals attributed to this species were obtained from a cave at an altitude of 1400 m a.s.l. during our field surveys. DIAGNOSIS. — The species has a forearm length of 41.0- 44.9 mm ( Table 3 ), and possesses features typical of the genus in having a dome-shaped forehead ( Fig. 18 ), and a second phalanx of third finger which is greatly elongated and folds back completely on metacarpals and first phalanx when at rest. The pelage is brownish dorsally and a paler brown ventrally. The interfemoral and wing membranes are brownish. The skull is characteristically large with a greatest length of 13.9-16.5 mm ( Table 3 ), other external measurements are presented in Table 3. REMARK. — The genus Miniopterus has a number of cryptic species with two listed to occur in Cameroon by Happold & Happold (2013) : Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl, 1817) and Miniopterus fraterculus Thomas and Schwann, 1906 . But Miniopterus schreibersii schreibersii is restricted to northern Africa ( ACR 2018 ), while Miniopterus fraterculus in endemic to South Africa and Swaziland ( Monadjem et al. 2010 ). Miniopterus minor Peters, 1867 has been recorded in isolated localities of central and eastern Africa ( ACR 2018 ). Therefore further molecular investigations are required to clarify the taxonomic status of the species present in Cameroon .