| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1993 |
| Authors: | F. Adam, Aellen, V., Tranier, M. |
| Journal: | Rev. suisse Zool. |
| Volume: | 100 |
| Pagination: | 317-326 |
| Date Published: | 1993 |
| Keywords: | Africa, Central African Republic, Chiroptera, Côte d’Ivoire, ecology, Faunistik, Fledermäuse, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Mammalia, Molossidae, morphology, Myopterus albatus, Myopterus daubentonii, Myopterus whitleyi, Senegal, systematics, taxonomy, Uganda |
| Abstract: | Five specimens of Myopterus, caught in Senegal in 1973, allow to clarify the taxonomical status of Myopterus daubentonii Desmarest, 1820 (Chiroptera: Molossidae). A neotype is designated, housed in the Museum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), in Paris. Relationships between the so-called M. daubentonii, M. albatus and M. whitleyi are discussed; it is suggested that M. albatus might be a mere subspecies of M. daubentonii. New localities are given - or even resurrected - for this rare and poorly known genus: i.e. Gabon and Uganda (M. whitleyi), Central African Republic (M. daubentonii albatus). |