Abo bat
Abo bat | |
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Conservation status
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Vespertilionidae |
Genus: | Glauconycteris |
Species: | G. poensis
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Binomial name | |
Glauconycteris poensis (Gray, 1842)
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The Abo bat (Glauconycteris poensis) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in several countries in West Africa and Central Africa. It is found in these habitats: subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
Taxonomy and etymology[]
It was described as a new species in 1842 by British zoologist John Edward Gray. Gray placed the species into a new genus, Kerivoula, with the scientific name Kerivoula poensis.[2] Its species name "poensis" means "belonging to Po." The holotype was collected on Fernando Pó, likely inspiring the species name.[2]
Description[]
Its fur is yellowish-gray in color.[2]
Range and habitat[]
It is found in several countries in West and Central Africa, including Benin, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.[1]
Conservation[]
It is currently evaluated as least concern by the IUCN—its lowest conservation priority. It meets the criteria for this classification because it has a large geographic range; its population is presumably large; and it is not likely to be in rapid population decline.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c Monadjem, A.; Taylor, P.J.; Jacobs, D.; Cotterill, F.P.D. (2017). "Glauconycteris poensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T44798A22069513. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T44798A22069513.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Gray, J.E. (1842). "Descriptions of some new genera and fifty unrecorded species of Mammalia". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 10: 258.
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Glauconycteris
- Bats of Africa
- Mammals described in 1842
- Taxa named by John Edward Gray