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
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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
Rhinolophus landeri
Martin, 1838
(
Fig. 12
,
Table 3
)
Rhinolophus landeri
Martin, 1838: 101
.
COMMON NAME. — Lander’s Horseshoe Bat. French: Rhinolophe de Lander.
MATERIAL
EXAMINED. —
24 specimens
(including original data).
Mount
Cameroon
area
•
12 ♀♀
,
7 ♂♂
;
Buea
;
4°09’00”N
;
9°12’00”E
;
1050 m
;
14.III.1938
;
Martin Eisentraut
leg.; SMNS 3455 to 3457, 5124, 5592 to 5595, 5123 to 5133, ZMB 78447, 78448, 93809 to 93812
•
1♀
;
Victoria
;
4°00’46”N
,
9°13’13”E
;
136 m
;
29.IV.1954
;
Martin Eisentraut
leg.; SMNS 5122
•
1 ♀
;
Bimbia
;
3°57’16”N
,
9°14’42”E
;
98 m
;
4.II.1938
;
Martin Eisentraut
leg.; SMNS 5592 to 5598
.
ORIGINAL
DATA. — Three individuals of this species were captured during our surveys (
Table 1
). One was mist-netted in a fallow farmland at an altitude of
1140 m
a.s.l, while the other two were captured in primary forest at an altitude of
1070 m
a.s.l.
HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — At Mount
Cameroon
, this cave dependent species had previously been recorded at altitudes up to
1250 m
a.s.l. (
Fedden & MacLeod 1986
), who also noted that this species inhabits both disturbed forest fringes and montane forest.
Eisentraut (1963)
also recorded this species in the lowland forest of Mount
Cameroon
at Bimbia and Limbe area, and in a cave at Buea. This species principally inhabits lowland rainforest, but has also been recorded in savannah and gallery forest (
Happold 2013d
), where they roost in small groups in caves, hollow trees and mine shafts (
Monadjem
et al.
2010
). This species has a broad sub-Saharan African distribution from West Africa through Central Africa to East Africa (
Taylor
et al.
2018
).
REMARK. — Recent molecular studies showed that the southern and eastern African savannah-dwelling
Rhinolophus landeri
is distinct from West African forest populations. As such the southern and eastern African populations have been assigned to a distinct species
Rhinolophus lobatus
Peters, 1852
(
Taylor
et al.
2018
).