| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Authors: | J. J. B., Ibáñez C. |
| Journal: | Bonn. zool. Beitr. |
| Volume: | 43 |
| Pagination: | 355-365 |
| Date Published: | 1992 |
| Keywords: | Africa, allopatric, Chiroptera, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), evolution, Faunistik, Fledermäuse, Gulf of Guinea, island biogeography, Madagascar, Mammalia, Miniopteridae, Miniopterus griveaudi, Miniopterus manavi, Miniopterus minor, Miniopterus minor newtoni [M. newtoni], Miniopterus minor occidentalis ssp. nov., São Tomé, speciation, species richness |
| Abstract: | Western populations of M. minor from São Tomé Island, Zaire and the Republic of Congo are compared to one another and with the known eastern subspecies, using either quantitative and qualitative parameters. The analyses confirm the subspecific character of both the São Tomé population (described as M. newtoni Bocage, 1893) and the western continental population, distinguished by cranial relationships and qualitative characters from the other known populations and hereby described as a new subspecies (M. minor occidentalis ssp. n.). In addition, a neotype for newtoni is designated. |