Coleura afra

(W. C. H. Peters, 1851)

African Sheath-tailed Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Emballonuroidea
Family : Emballonuridae
Subfamily : Emballonurinae
Tribe : Emballonurini
Genus : Coleura

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Peters, W.C.H. 1851. Hr. Peters legte von seinem Werke über Mossambique die erste Abtheilung der Säugethiere vor, und gab die Diagnosen der darin beschriebenen und abgebildeten neuen Arten. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1851:756-759.

Original name as described

Emballonura afra

Other common names

Mozambique Sheath-tailed Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1858.6.18.12, BMNH:Mamm:1907.1.1.703, RMNH.MAM.27333, ZMB 429, ZMB 430, ZMB 571, ZMB 54845, ZMB 67559, ZMB 67561, ZMB 67562, ZMB 85667, ZMB 85668, ZMB 85669

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

Tete, Mozambique.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Guinea-Bissau · Guinea · Cote d'Ivoire · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Nigeria · Central African Republic · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Uganda · Tanzania · Ethiopia · Sudan · South Sudan · Somalia · Kenya · Angola · Mozambique · Rwanda? · Burundi?

Taxonomy notes

previously included C. gallarum

Taxonomy notes citation

Uvizl, M., Šmíd, J., Aghová, T., Varadínová, Z. K., & Benda, P. (2019). Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the sheath-tailed bats from the Middle East (Emballonuridae: Taphozous and Coleura). Acta Chiropterologica, 21(1), 23-34.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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