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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9F86C958316E2BF3E" box="[1936,2274,986,1036]" italics="true" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Myotis welwitschii</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9FA8692461BC6BF06" bold="true" box="[1402,1478,1055,1076]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">French:</emphasis>
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/
<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9F95792461906BF06" bold="true" box="[1707,1798,1055,1076]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">German:</emphasis>
<vernacularName id="4A9746D0FF466AF9F8F0924619D5BF06" ID-CoL="8LZG7" baseAuthorityName="Gray" baseAuthorityYear="1866" box="[1804,2005,1055,1076]" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Myotis" kingdom="Animalia" language="deu" order="Chiroptera" pageId="189" pageNumber="951" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="welwitschii">Welwitsch-Mausohr</vernacularName>
/
<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9F81592461645BF06" bold="true" box="[2025,2117,1055,1076]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Spanish:</emphasis>
<vernacularName id="4A9746D0FF466AF9F7B392461736BF06" ID-CoL="8LZG7" baseAuthorityName="Gray" baseAuthorityYear="1866" box="[2127,2358,1055,1076]" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Myotis" kingdom="Animalia" language="esp" order="Chiroptera" pageId="189" pageNumber="951" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="welwitschii">Ratonero de Welwitsch</vernacularName>
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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9FA85921E1871BF6E" bold="true" box="[1401,1649,1095,1116]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Other common names:</emphasis>
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,
<vernacularName id="4A9746D0FF466AF9F8EA921E19F1BF6E" ID-CoL="8LZG7" baseAuthorityName="Gray" baseAuthorityYear="1866" box="[1814,2033,1095,1116]" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Myotis" kingdom="Animalia" language="eng" order="Chiroptera" pageId="189" pageNumber="951" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="welwitschii">Welwitsch's Hairy Bat</vernacularName>
,
<vernacularName id="4A9746D0FF466AF9F800921E1729BF6E" ID-CoL="8LZG7" baseAuthorityName="Gray" baseAuthorityYear="1866" box="[2044,2345,1095,1116]" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Myotis" kingdom="Animalia" language="eng" order="Chiroptera" pageId="189" pageNumber="951" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="welwitschii">Welwitschs Mouse-eared Bat</vernacularName>
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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9F82192D61679BF9E" bold="true" box="[2013,2169,1167,1196]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Taxonomy.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="03944D7DFF466AF9F77992D61622BFE1" ID-CoL="8LGWB" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1866" class="Mammalia" family="Vespertilionidae" genus="Scotophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="189" pageNumber="951" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="welwitschii">Scotophilus welwitschii]. E. Gray, 1866</taxonomicName>
,
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Subgenus Chrysopteron.
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and also M. rufoniger. Monotypic.
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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9F8219370168DBE78" bold="true" box="[2013,2189,1321,1354]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Distribution.</emphasis>
Patchily in sub-Saharan Africa, in SE
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, and from
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and
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through W
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,
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,
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, S
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, and
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to N &amp; NE
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.
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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9F82093B716F3BD3D" bold="true" box="[2012,2291,1518,1551]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Descriptive notes.</emphasis>
Head-body c¢.57
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, tail
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, ear
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, hindfoot 9-
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, forearm
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; weight
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. Sexes similar. Pelage of Welwitschs
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is dense and woolly, without sheen; dorsally orange (hairs tricolored, cream with blackish-brown base and orange tip; mid-dorsal hairs
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); ventrally cream, slightly suffused with orange (hairs bicolored, blackish brown with cream tip). Wings strikingly particolored, with outer arm-wing and hand-wing black, bones outlined in orange, and inner arm-wing orange with small black spots. Wing membranes naked, attached to base offirst toe; interfemoral membrane orange with small black spots, ventral surface with sparse backward-pointing hairs, and posterior margin with sparse fringe of straight, bristle-like hairs between tips of calcars and tip of tail. Ears orange with small black spots and black edges, outer margin without notch, and of medium length; tragus long, bluntly pointed, measuring about one-half ear length. Tibia naked. Muzzle naked, orange with black spots. Skull large and robust (greatest length of skull 18-6-20-
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); profile of forehead moderately concave;sagittal crest low anteriorly, absent posteriorly. P* reduced, being partially or fully displaced lingually; P? and P* separated or in contact; I, and I, with four cusps, three well developed and the fourth low and inconspicuous. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 44 and FNa = 50 (
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), X = submetacentric, Y = submetacentric.
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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9FA899E821BE4B3CE" bold="true" box="[1397,1508,2267,2300]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Habitat.</emphasis>
Typically in Afro-montane habitats at elevations over
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, including forest in much of East and Central Africa, and grassland nearforest in
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; up to
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in
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. Also at lower elevations, occurring in wetter and drier miombo woodland and riverine woodland at
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in
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; woodland savanna in south-central and southern Africa; and coastal forest surrounded by thornveld in KwaZulu-Natal.
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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9FA889FF91879B2F3" bold="true" box="[1396,1657,2464,2497]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Food and Feeding.</emphasis>
Fecal pellets from one bat contained remains of small beetles; captive bats prefer softshelled insects. Recorded flying low over streams and a farm pool, which suggests that the species may forage by trawling over open water like Bocages
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(
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). Wing loading very low, aspect ratio low, flight fast or slow with great maneuverability; able to take off from ground.
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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9FA8F9C311BFAB1B7" bold="true" box="[1395,1530,2664,2693]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Breeding.</emphasis>
No information.
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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9FA8D9CD4185EB19C" bold="true" box="[1393,1630,2701,2734]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Activity patterns.</emphasis>
Recorded calls of two individuals from Soutpansberg,
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, had the following parameters: maximum frequency 73-8 kHz, minimum frequency 33-8 kHz and 34 kHz,frequency of knee 52-9 kHz and 53 kHz, characteristic frequency 50 kHz and 50-3 kHz, slope 563 OPS, and duration 2-1 milliseconds.
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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9FA8E9D721633B07E" bold="true" box="[1394,2099,2859,2892]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Movements, Home range and Social organization.</emphasis>
Welwitschs
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has been found roosting singly, but data are scarce. During the day, it has been seen hanging in bushes and trees, where well camouflaged by resemblance to dead leaves. In
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, one individual was found in furled leaf of banana plant, although there were no other record of banana leaves being used as day roost, despite almost two years of intensive search.
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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9FA8E9A4218CFB70A" bold="true" box="[1394,1743,3099,3128]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Status and Conservation.</emphasis>
Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List.
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<emphasis id="F6E0EAECFF466AF9FA8E9A1E180BB752" bold="true" box="[1394,1547,3143,3168]" pageId="189" pageNumber="951">Bibliography.</emphasis>
ACR (2017), Ansell &amp; Dowsett (1988), Csorba, Chou Cheng-Han et al. (2014), Happold, M. (2013bm), Linden et al. (2014), Rautenbach et al. (1993), Ruedi &amp; Mayer (2001), Taylor, Sowler et al. (2013).
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