Myonycteris relicta Bergmans 1980
- Dataset
- A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Chiroptera
- family
- Pteropodidae
- genus
- Myonycteris
- species
- Myonycteris relicta
description
A single specimen of this rarely collected species was captured in Chinizuia Forest and constitutes a new species record for Mozambique. The only other record for Southern Africa is from southeast Zimbabwe on the Mozambique border at the Haroni-Rusiti confluence; elsewhere the species occurs in coastal forests of East Africa (Bergmans, 1997). Field measurements: FA (juvenile female) 71.1 (1); Bm (juvenile female) 52 (1).
Name
- Homonyms
- Myonycteris relicta Bergmans 1980