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--> FAMILY Molossidae
--> SUBFAMILY Molossinae
--> GENUS Mops
--> SUBGENUS Mops
SPECIES Mops (Mops) niveiventer
| Author: | Cabrera and Ruxton, 1926. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 17: 594. | | Common Name: | White-bellied Free-tailed Bat | | Type Locality: | Dem. Rep. Congo, Kasai Occidental, Luluabourg (= Kananga). | | Distribution: | Dem. Rep. Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Mozambique. Records from Botswana and Madagascar are erroneous; Botswana records are now thought to represent condylurus while Madagascar records represent leucostigma (see Hayman and Hill [1971], Meester et al. [1986], and Peterson et al. [1995]). | | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Mops. Clearly distinct from condylurus, see Ansell (1967), Hayman and Hill (1971), and Meester et al. (1986). Koopman (1993) suggested that niveiventer is possibly a subspecies of demonstrator. Reviewed in part by Van Cakenberghe et al. (1999). |
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