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SPECIES Nycteris hispida
Author: | Schreber, 1775. | Citation: | Die Säugethiere, 1: 169, 188. | Common Name: | Hairy Slit-faced Bat | Type Locality: | Senegal. | Distribution: | Senegal, Gambia, and extreme S Mauritania to Somalia and south to Angola, C Mozambique, Botswana, and Malawi; Zanzibar; Bioko (Equatorial Guinea). A South African record is dubious; see Cotterill (1996). | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | hispida species group. Revised by Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1993b); also see Koopman (1975). Does not include aurita. Several subspecies are often recognized, but these do not seem justified; see Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1993b). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
daubentoni E. Geoffroy, 1813 martini Fraser, 1834 pallida J. A. Allen, 1917 pilosa Gray, 1866 poensis Gray, 1843 villosa Peters, 1852
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