Neoromicia anchietae

(de Seabra, 1900)

Anchieta's Serotine

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Vespertilioninae
Tribe : Vespertilionini
Genus : Neoromicia

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Seabra, A.F. de. 1900-02. Sobre um caracter importante para a determinação dos generos e especies dos "microchiropteros" e lista das especies d'este grupo existentes nas collecções do Museu Nacional (continuação). Jornal de sciencias mathematicas, physicas e naturaes (2)6(21):16-35.

Authority publication link

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3081921?urlappend=%3Bseq=316%3Bownerid=9007199272966453-330

Original name as described

Vesperugo Anchieta

Other common names

Anchieta's Bat · Miombo Pipistrelle · Anchieta's Pipistrelle

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1906.1.3.1, MNHN 1900-538

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/b2e7a2b8-0342-4dfd-98ee-16af7e5c3c5d

Type locality

Cahata, Angola.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Angola · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Zambia · Botswana

Taxonomy notes

previously included populations now attributed to N. hlandzeni; moved from Hypsugo to Neoromicia; sometimes spelt 'anchieta', but 'anchietae' is considered a justified emendation and is retained despited not matching the original description (see Kock, 2001 and Grubb, 2004)

Taxonomy notes citation

Kock, D. 2001. Rousettus aegyptiacus (E. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1810) and Pipistrellus anchietae (Seabra, 1900), justified emendations of original spellings. Acta Chiropterologica 3(2):245-256. · Grubb, P. 2004. Controversial scientific names of African mammals. African Zoology 39(1):91-109. · Fasel, N. J., Mamba, M. L., & Monadjem, A. (2020). Penis morphology facilitates identification of cryptic African bat species. Journal of Mammalogy, 101(5), 1392-1399. · Monadjem, A., T. C. Demos, D. L. Dalton, P. W. Webala, S. Musila, J. C. K. Peterhans and B. D. Patterson (2021). A revision of pipistrelle-like bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in East Africa with the description of new genera and species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191(4): 1114–1146. · Taylor, P. J., Strydom, E., Richards, L., Markotter, W., Toussaint, D. C., Kearney, T., ... & Monadjem, A. (2022). Integrative taxonomic analysis of new collections from the central Angolan highlands resolves the taxonomy of African pipistrelloid bats on a continental scale. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlac071.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005741

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.

Vesperugo Anchieta

(de Seabra, 1900)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

anchietae

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

as_emended

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1906.1.3.1, MNHN 1900-538

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/b2e7a2b8-0342-4dfd-98ee-16af7e5c3c5d

Authority page

26

Authority page URI

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3081921?urlappend=%3Bseq=316%3Bownerid=9007199272966453-330

Authority publication

Jornal de sciencias mathematicas, physicas e naturaes

Name usages

Seabra (1900:26, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3081921?urlappend=%3Bseq=316%3Bownerid=9007199272966453-330) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68460)

Vesperugo Anchietæ

(de Seabra, 1900)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

anchietae

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

justified_emendation

Authority page

120

Authority publication

Jornal de sciencias mathematicas, physicas e naturaes

Name usages

Seabra (1900:120) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68464)

Pipistrellus anchietae

(J. Eric Hill & T. D. Carter, 1941)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

anchietae

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

45

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Hill & Carter (1941:45) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16955)
  2. Corbet & Hill (1991:75) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  3. Happold & Happold (2013:610) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  4. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/44851/22072042) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Pipistrellus anchietai

(Ellerman, Morrison-Scott, & Hayman, 1953)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

anchietai

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

79, 80, 81

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:66) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:196) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Koopman (1993:219) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)

Hypsugo anchietae

(K.-G. Heller, Volleth, & Kock, 1994)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

anchietae

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

2

Authority publication

Senckenbergiana biologica

Name usages

  1. Heller, Volleth & Kock (1994:2) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67196)
  2. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  3. Bates, Ratrimomanarivo, Harrison & Goodman (2006:319) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/1636)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #400000204) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #400000204) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)

Hypsugo anchieta

(D. E. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2019)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

anchieta

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

814

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:814) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)

Neoromicia anchietae

Monadjem, Demos, D. L. Dalton, Webala, Musila, Kerbis Peterhans, & B. D. Patterson, 2020

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

anchietae

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

1127

Authority publication

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Name usages

  1. Monadjem, Demos, Dalton, Webala, Musila, Kerbis Peterhans & Patterson (2020:1127) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/51199)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005741) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)

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