Black and white butterfly bat
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Black and white butterfly bat ( Niumbaha superba ) |
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| Reeder , Helgen , Vodzak , Lunde & Ejotre , 2013 | ||||||||||||
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| Niumbaha superba | ||||||||||||
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The black and white butterfly bat ( Niumbaha superba ) is a bat species from the smooth-nosed family , which is native to Africa. The exact distribution area is not known. So far, the species is only known from a few locations in the rainforest in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , from southwestern South Sudan and from the edge of the rainforest in Ghana and the Ivory Coast .
features
The black and white butterfly bat reaches a total length (tip of the snout to the end of the tail) of 8.8 to 11.2 cm, is thus longer than the butterfly bats ( Glauconycteris ) and has a significantly larger skull (> 16 mm) than the species of this genus. Striking and unique among the African smooth noses is the high-contrast black and yellow coloration of the species. This makes it more similar to the Asian harlequin bat ( Scotomanes ornatus ). The ears of the black and white butterfly bat are more robust and angular. They have a large, free-standing outgrowth on the inner edge and the tragus is more curved than in Glauconycteris . The snout is stronger than that of Glauconycteris and the nostrils are more in front than on the side. The skull is less broad in relation to length than in Glauconycteris but more elongated and more domed. The muzzle is flat and the upper edge of the muzzle is parallel to the upper row of teeth. The anterior snout region is relatively wider than that of Glauconycteris . The black and white butterfly bat has the same tooth formula as Glauconycteris .
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The wing tips of the black and white butterfly bat are longer than those of most other African smooth- nosed bats , but remain much shorter than those of the long-winged glauconcteris species.
Systematics
The black and white butterfly bat was scientifically described for the first time in 1939 by the British zoologist Robert William Hayman and assigned to the genus Glauconycteris . In 2013, because of the clear morphological differences, the genus Niumbaha was introduced for the species that has remained monotypical up to now.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Meredith Happold: Glauconycteris superba Pied Butterfly Bat (Superb Butterfly Bat), pages 575 - 576 in Meredith Happold and David Happold (eds.): Mammals of Africa Volume IV. Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats . Bloomsbury, London, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4081-2254-9
- ↑ a b Reeder, D .; Helgen, KM; Vodzak, M .; Lunde, D .; Ejotre, I. (2013). A new genus for a rare African vespertilionid bat: Insights from South Sudan . ZooKeys 285: 89.doi : 10.3897 / zookeys.285.4892