Little woolly bat
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Little woolly bat ( Kerivoula lanosa ) |
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The Small wool bat ( Kerivoula lanosa ) is in Africa occurring bat of the genus of wool bats .
description
The little woolly bat is a small bat species that weighs on average about 4.8 g and whose total length (head to tip of the tail) is on average about 76.1 mm, the forearm length about 31.5 mm. The hair is very long and curly, the individual hairs are colored dark brown at the root and become lighter and lighter to the tip. The back and head color of the bat appears brownish to greyish. The fur is white to gray-white on the underside. The wings are dark brown and not very hairy. The ears are funnel-shaped and about 12 mm long, the long, narrow tragus tapers to a point. The edge of the tail flight membrane is hairy, the hair here curls inwards around the edge of the flight membrane, which clearly distinguishes the small woolly bat and the sister species colored woolly bat ( Kerovoula argentata ) from other bats in the region.
distribution
Evidence of the little woolly bat is available from all over sub-Saharan Africa . In the west it occurs in Liberia and Guinea , in the east the distribution area extends to Kenya and Ethiopia . Furthermore, it occurs on the entire coast of South Africa and Mozambique , there is also evidence from Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
Way of life
There is little data available on small woolly bats, so that there are no reliable findings on the ecology of the species. Small woolly bats appear to be forest bats, as evidence of the species finds its way into gallery forests , among other places . Nests of weaver and nectar birds are accepted as roosts . Nothing is known about the food composition of the species, it probably hunts close to the vegetation.
Systematics
The species was first described by A. Smith in 1847 under the name Vespertilio lanosus . The specific epithon "lanosa" is Greek and means "woolly" and refers to the long, woolly fur of bats. Depending on the author, there are two to four subspecies :
- Kerivoula lanosa harrisoni ( Thomas 1901)
- Kerivoula lanosa lanosa ( A. Smith 1847)
- Kerivoula lanosa lucia ( Hinton 1920)
- Kerivoula lanosa muscilla ( Thomas 1906)
Danger
Due to the large distribution area, the species is classified by the IUCN as not endangered ("least concern").
literature
Ara Monadjem , Peter John Taylor , FPD (Woody) Cotterill & M. Corrie Schoeman: Bats of Southern and Central Africa: A Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis . 1st edition. Wits University Press, Pretoria 2010, ISBN 978-1-86814-508-9 .
Web links
- Kerivoula lanosa in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved January 14, 2017.
- Kerivoula lanosa inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016.3. Posted by: Jacobs, D., Cotterill, FPD & Taylor, PJ, 2008. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Monadjem et al. (2010). Pp. 426-429
- ↑ a b Victor Van Cakenberghe & Ernest CJ Seamark (eds.): ACR. 2016. African Chiroptera Report 2016. African Bats . 2016, ISSN 1990-6471 , p. 511-513 .
- ↑ Kerivoula lanosa in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved January 14, 2017.
- ↑ Kerivoula lanosa in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016.3. Posted by: Jacobs, D., Cotterill, FPD & Taylor, PJ, 2008. Retrieved January 14, 2017.