Warty broad-winged bat
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The wart Serotine ( Eptesicus floweri ) is a species of bats of the genus of eptesicus which in Africa is located. The specific epithet honors the British zoologist Stanley Smyth Flower .
description
The warty broad-winged bat is the smallest African broad-winged bat, its forearm length is only about 34 to 38 mm. The muzzle and rounded ears are hairless and dark brown, the ears are about 10 mm long. The flight skin is light brown, the tail barely protrudes from the tail flight skin. The back fur is yellowish- fawn to reddish brown in color. On the chest side, the color on the neck is yellow-brown and turns light brown to completely white towards the belly. It is named after horny warts on the forearms, which are not found in any other broad-winged bat in Africa. Warts on bat wings are otherwise known only in Eptesicus nasutus and in the African flat-headed bat .
Way of life
Little is known about the warty broad-winged bat. So far, it has been found in habitats such as thorn bush savannahs or dry savannahs , in which different acacia species occur. The flight is slow, the food is caught at low altitude in the vicinity of acacias. She has also been seen flying close to the surface of the water. Roosts are in acacias, mostly in the gum arabic tree near the roots, at dusk the animals climb up the branches in order to fly off from there.
distribution and habitat
Warty broad-winged bats have so far only been identified with a few specimens, most of the finds come from Sudan . Other individual finds seem to suggest that the common warts bat is common in the Sahel . Evidence is available from Sudan, South Sudan , Mali and Mauritania , although individual finds from Mali and Mauritania, due to morphological differences, are not certain whether they are the same species or subspecies. The specimen that was collected in Mauritania was also caught in acacia-covered savannas. The IUCN classifies the warts-winged bat population as stable and not endangered because of its widespread distribution and the fact that it is found in habitats that are not directly threatened.
Web links
- Eptesicus floweri in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
literature
- Victor van Cakenberghe and Meredith Happold: Eptesicus floweri Horn-skinned Serotine. In: Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Thomas Butynski, Michael Hoffmann, Meredith Happold and Jan Kalina: Mammals of Africa. Volume IV. Hedgehogs, shrews and bats. Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013 ISBN = 978-1-4081-2254-9, pp. 554–555 limited preview in Google Book Search
Individual evidence
- ^ Theodor CH Cole: Dictionary of Mammal Names - Dictionary of Mammal Names . 1st edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-46269-0 .
- ^ William E. de Winton: On a new Species of Bat from the Soudan. In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, Volume 7, 1901, p. 46
- ↑ a b c Cakenberghe et al. P. 554f.
- ↑ Padial, JM & Ibáñez, C .: New records and comments for the Mauritanian mammal fauna . In: Mammalia . 69, No. 2, 2005, pp. 239-243. Accessed December 10, 2016.
- ↑ Eptesicus floweri in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Jacobs, D., Cotterill, FPD, Taylor, PJ & Fahr, J., 2008. Retrieved December 8, 2016.