Miniopterus villiersi

Aellen, 1956

Villiers's Long-fingered Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Miniopteridae
Genus : Miniopterus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Aellen, V. 1956. _Speologica africana_. Chiroptères des grottes de Guinée. Bulletin de l'Institut Français de l'Afrique Noire (A)18(3):884-894.

Original name as described

Miniopterus inflatus villiersi

Other common names

Villiers's Bent-winged Bat

Type material

IFAN 54-1-1

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"grotte du Marché, Dalaba, Guiné française [= Guinea]."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Guinea · Sierra Leone · Liberia

Taxonomy notes

split from M. schreibersii; moved from Vespertilionidae to Miniopteridae

Taxonomy notes citation

Miller-Butterworth, C. M., Murphy, W. J., O'Brien, S. J., Jacobs, D. S., Springer, M. S., & Teeling, E. C. (2007). A family matter: conclusive resolution of the taxonomic position of the long-fingered bats, Miniopterus. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24(7), 1553-1561. · Monadjem, A., Shapiro, J. T., Richards, L. R., Karabulut, H., Crawley, W., Nielsen, I. B., ... & Mourier, T. (2019). Systematics of West African Miniopterus with the description of a new species. Acta Chiropterologica, 21(2), 237-256.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005139

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Miniopterus inflatus villiersi

Aellen, 1956

Family

Miniopteridae

Root name

villiersi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

IFAN 54-1-1

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

890

Authority publication

Bulletin de l'Institut Français de l'Afrique Noire

Name usages

Eisentraut (1963:97) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68788)

M. s. villiersi

Koopman, 1994

Family

Miniopteridae

Root name

villiersi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

134

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

Koopman (1994:134) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)

Miniopterus schreibersii villiersi

Simmons, 2005

Family

Miniopteridae

Root name

villiersi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Miniopterus villiersi

D. E. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2019

Family

Miniopteridae

Root name

villiersi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

703

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

  1. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:703) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005139) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)

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