An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity Author Monadjem, Ara All Out Africa Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Swaziland, Private Bag 4, Kwaluseni, Swaziland & Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag 20, Pretoria, South Africa & Hipposideros lamottei & Corresponding author: E-mail: ara @ uniswa. sz ara@uniswa.sz Author Richards, Leigh Durban Natural Science Museum, P. O. Box 4085, Durban, South Africa Author Denys, Christiane UMR 7205, CNRS, MNHN, EPHE, Sorbonne Université, Paris VI, Institut de Systématique et Evolution de la Biodiversité, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France text Acta Chiropterologica 2016 2016-12-01 18 2 359 375 journal article 21454 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.005 14ec50b9-9afa-4b91-94c8-c08bb0dfc7d5 1733-5329 3942481 Neoromicia nana (Peters, 1852) This species was previously recorded from Liberian and Guinean Nimba (Wolton et al ., 1982; Brosset, 1985 ; Fahr et al ., 2006 ). During this survey, it was recorded widely in forested and forest edge habitats between 450 and 530 m a.s.l. This taxon is distributed across much of sub-Saharan Africa, occurring in a wide range of habitats and exhibiting significant morphological variation ( Happold, 2013 b ) suggesting the presence of cryptic species. This species displayed rather large variation in size at Mt Nimba (forearm range 25.6–30.0 mm), but the significance of this has yet to be investigated.