Scotophilus nigritellus
de Winton, 1899
Western Greenish Yellow Bat
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Chiroptera |
| Suborder | : Vespertilioniformes |
| Superfamily | : Vespertilionoidea |
| Family | : Vespertilionidae |
| Subfamily | : Vespertilioninae |
| Tribe | : Scotophilini |
| Genus | : Scotophilus |
Species status
Authority citation
de Winton, W.E. 1899-11-01. On mammals collected by Lieut.-Colonel W. Giffard in the northern territory of the Gold Coast. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)4(23):353-359.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19209098Original name as described
Scotophilus nigritellus
Other common names
Western Greenish House Bat
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1899.6.15.9
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/f7e0d9c7-e66b-41c9-b275-70b66ed8ba56Type locality
"Gambaga [Ghana], 1300 feet [= 396 m]."
Biogeographic realm
Afrotropic
Country distribution
Senegal · Gambia · Guinea-Bissau · Burkina Faso · Cote d'Ivoire · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Mali · Niger · Nigeria · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Chad · Sudan · Ethiopia
Taxonomy notes
split from S. viridis
Taxonomy notes citation
Vallo, P., Benda, P., Červený, J., & Koubek, P. (2015). Phylogenetic position of the giant house bat Scotophilus nigrita (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Mammalia, 79(2), 225-231.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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