Pipistrellus adamsi Kitchener, Caputi & B. Jones 1986

• Main Authors: Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Lynx Edicions 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Vespertilionidae; Pipistrellus; Pipistrellus adamsi; Pipistrellus pipistrellus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6578097; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4C3D87E8FFE26A5DFA9692811886B695

48. Forest Pipistrelle Pipistrellus adamsi French: Pipistrelle d'Adams / German: Cape-York-Zwergfledermaus / Spanish: Pipistrela de Adams Other common names: Adams's Pipistrelle, Cape York Pipistrelle Taxonomy. Kitchener, Caputi & B. Jones, 1986, “ 40 km E Archer River Crossing, Cape York, Queensland (13°27’S, 143°18°E),” Australia. Although similar to one another, P. adams: and P. westralis are considered distinct species based on morphological and genetic data. Monotypic. Distribution. Restricted to N Australia, including Top End region (including Melville and Bathurst Is) in Northern Territory and Cape York (including Prince ofWales I) in Queensland; there are several isolated records from E Queensland on Atherton Tableland, at Cape Hillsborough, and near Blackwater. Descriptive notes. Head-body 35-44 mm, tail 26-35 mm, ear 8-5-12 mm, forearm 29-6-32-7 mm; weight 3-6-2 g. Like the Northern Pipistrelle (P. westralis), the Forest Pipistrelle is very small and one of the smallest bats in Australia. Dorsal pelage varies from dark brown to grayish brown or rusty red; ventral pelage is considerably lighter but generally matches dorsum. Face, ears, forearms, and wings vary between light brown and dark blackish. Ears are broadly rounded at tips and subtriangular in shape; tragus is c.50% the height of ear and has larger basal lobe and more convex posterior edge than the Northern Pipistrelle. Uropatagium stretches nearly to end oftail (only extreme tip is free), and postcalcarial lobe is semicircular. Glans penis has slightly flared head, with small ventral flaps against shaft; there is a relatively long fleshy lobe projecting from ventral tip. Baculum is long (but shorter than in the Northern Pipistrelle), with narrow base, and is curved, with deeply bifurcated tip (for 30% ofits length rather than 10% in the Northern Pipistrelle). Skull is small and gracile but larger in all dimensions than that of the Northern Pipistrelle, although skull is rather similar to that species in most other aspects; posterior palate ...