A list of Angolan Chiroptera with notes on their distribution

Sixty one taxa of bats (most of them species) are listed for Angola. The collecting localities cited in the literature are mentioned for each of them, as well as the material examined, housed in the ex-Centro de Estudos do Lubango, Angola (a department of the ex-Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica de Angola), and in the Centro de Zoologia of the Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, in Lisbon. Notes on distribution are also given for many of the taxa. The list is accompanied by distributional maps and is preceded by some introductory zoogeographical considerations.