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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>Hoffmann, Anke</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Kadjo, Blaise</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Hutterer, Rainer</mods:namePart>
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J. A. 
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<emphasis box="[151,310,245,271]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="276">New material</emphasis>
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A single male of this smallest West African molossid bat was captured in the canopy net over the creek in closed evergreen forest at FC and two females in the canopy net on the ridge at PF ridge. The specimen from PF carried an embryo of 
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recorded two individuals near the River Douoble at Liberian Mount Nimba. At Njala, 
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, nine adult females with three young were found roosting in a crack of a tree, others in a thatched roof and one in a bamboo thicket. 
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). Upon the discovery of this species in 
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in 1917 seven individuals were found in a cavity high up in a tree, the entrance of which was concealed by epiphytic ferns (
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Allen 
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). Our captures from the Foko Ridge show that this forest-dwelling molossid does leave the forest to hunt in open habitat.
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Least Concern. Population trend is unknown (
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