Pipistrellus hesperidus Temminck 1840

Pipistrellus hesperidus Temminck, 1840 This species was previously recorded from Liberian Nimba (Hill, 1982; Wolton et al., 1982 [as Pipistrellus kuhli and P. rusticus, see Monadjem and Fahr, 2007]), but was not recorded during this study. The previously recorded specimens (BMNH 79.509 and BMNH 79.5...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh, Denys, Christiane
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus hesperidus
Christiane
Pipistrellus pipistrellus
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/4341712
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4341712
Description
Summary:Pipistrellus hesperidus Temminck, 1840 This species was previously recorded from Liberian Nimba (Hill, 1982; Wolton et al., 1982 [as Pipistrellus kuhli and P. rusticus, see Monadjem and Fahr, 2007]), but was not recorded during this study. The previously recorded specimens (BMNH 79.509 and BMNH 79.512, deposited in the British Museum of Natural History, London) have been examin- ed by J. Fahr who confirmed their identity as P. hesperidus (J. Fahr, in litt.). Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh & Denys, Christiane, 2016, An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity, pp. 359-375 in Acta Chiropterologica 18 (2) on page 370, DOI:10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.005, http://zenodo.org/record/3942481

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