Cistugo

Cistugo
Systematics
Subclass :	Higher mammals (Eutheria)
Superordinate :	Laurasiatheria
Order :	Bats (chiroptera)
Superfamily :	Smooth-nosed (Vespertilionoidea)
Family :	Cistugidae
Genre :	Cistugo
Scientific name of the family
	Cistugidae
	Lack , Roehrs , Stanley , Ruedi & Van Den Bussche , 2010
Scientific name of the genus
	Cistugo
	Thomas , 1912

Cistugo is a genus of bat with two species that are found in Africa . The taxon was listed in older works as a subgenus of the mouse ears ( Myotis ) in the family of smooth noses (Vespertilionidae). Newer treatises such as Mammal Species of the World and the World Conservation Union recognize Cistugo as a genus. A 2010 study found conspicuous genetic deviations between Cistugo and Myotis . The authors placed the genus in its own family Cistugidae, which is accepted by both the Mammal Diversity Database of the American Society of Mammalogists and the IUCN Red List.

The following species belong to the genus.

Lesueur mouse- eared mouse ( Cistugo lesueuri ), lives in South Africa and Lesotho .

Angola mouse- eared mouse ( Cistugo seabrae ), is native to southwest Angola , western Namibia and northwest South Africa.

These bats reach a head-trunk length of 40 to 55 mm, a forearm length of 32 to 38 mm and a weight of 5.5 to 8 g. On each wing there are one or two glands that are formed as nodules. With regard to the dentition, the genera Cistugo and Mouse Ears are identical.

The species feed on insects that are caught in flight with the help of the flight skin or that are picked up by plants.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Wilson & Reeder (eds.): Mammal Species of the World . 3. Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2005, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4 (English, Cistugo ).
↑ ^a ^b Cistugo in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016. Accessed October 31, 2016.
^ Lack, JB, Roehrs, ZP, Stanley, CE, Ruedi, M. and Van Den Bussche, RA 2010. Molecular phylogenetics of Myotis indicate familial-level divergence for the genus Cistugo (Chiroptera). Journal of Mammalogy 91 (4): 976-992. doi : 10.1644 / 09-MAMM-A-192.1
↑ ^a ^b Jonathan Kingdon: Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4729-1236-7 , pp. 351 ( Pimple-Winged Bats ).

[MSW-1] A ^b Wilson & Reeder (eds.): Mammal Species of the World . 3. Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2005, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4 (English, Cistugo ).

[IUCN-2] Cistugo in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016. Accessed October 31, 2016.

[Lack-3] Lack, JB, Roehrs, ZP, Stanley, CE, Ruedi, M. and Van Den Bussche, RA 2010. Molecular phylogenetics of Myotis indicate familial-level divergence for the genus Cistugo (Chiroptera). Journal of Mammalogy 91 (4): 976-992. doi : 10.1644 / 09-MAMM-A-192.1

[Kingdon-4] Jonathan Kingdon: Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4729-1236-7 , pp. 351 ( Pimple-Winged Bats ).