| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1994 |
| Authors: | N. M. Thomas, Harrison, D. L., Bates, P. J. J. |
| Journal: | Bonn. zool. Beitr. |
| Volume: | 45 |
| Pagination: | 17-31 |
| Date Published: | 1994 |
| Keywords: | Africa, Asia, baculum, Chiroptera, distribution, evolution, Fledermäuse, Mammalia, morphology, Nycteridae, Nycteris parisii, Nycteris woodi, Os penis, phylogeny, species richness, systematics, taxonomy, Verbreitung |
| Abstract: | The bacula of 11 of the 15 species commonly recognised within the genus Nycteris (Cuvier & E. Geoffroy, 1795) have been examined. The bacula are described and illustrated, and notes on the systematics of the genus, with particular reference to bacular morphology, are included. V. parisii is considered distinct from N. woodi on the basis of bacular morphology. The baculum of N. woodi separates it from the other members of the macrotis group. N. grandis has a particularly distinctive baculum. |