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<emphasis id="B947EAC7D558395D1F24F96CFC1446DF" box="[813,1003,1742,1766]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="505">Nyctinomus thersites</emphasis>
Thomas, 1903: 634
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COMMON NAME. — English: Railer
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French: Tadaride de Railer.
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EXAMINED. —
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(including original data).
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Other localities of
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; Bipindi; Zenker Georg August leg.; ZMB
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DATA. — During our field surveys, a single individual (
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) attributed to this species was capture over a slow flowing stream at an altitude of
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a.s.l. This specimen was the first recorded from the Mount
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area, but this species had previously been recorded from Sahelian zone of northern
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(
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Bakwo Fils
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2014
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). We did not examine any museum specimens.
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FIG. 18. —
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.Photo:© Aaron Manga Mongombe.
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DIAGNOSIS. — This specimen possesses the characteristic dark colored wings and conspicuous blackish flanks below wings between the leg and arm described by
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and
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Happold (
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as
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). Other features mentioned by
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Happold (
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are also typical such as a forearm length of
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. The external and skull measurements are provided in
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and
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, respectively.
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HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — This species has been widely recorded from much of western and Central Africa (
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Happold
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). It has been recorded mostly from lowland rainforest and secondary forest, but also occurs in mesic savannah and adjacent grassland habitats (
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