Neoromicia somalica
Creators: name: Decher, Jan
name: Hoffmann, Anke
name: Schaer, Juliane
name: N Orris, Ryan W.
name: Kadjo, Blaise
name: Astrin, Jonas
name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Neoromicia
Neoromicia somalica

description: <i>Neoromicia somalica</i> (Bocage, 1889) <i>New material</i> ZFMK 2008.0033, &amp;female;, CMR, 18 December 2008. One female of this tiny pipistrelloid bat was caught in the canopy net set over a stream in gallery forest at CMR. In our genetic analysis it groups with a single specimen of <i>N. somalica</i> from Mount Nimba (DM 12612 — Monadjem <i>et al.</i>, 2013 <i>b</i>). While our measurements agree well with those published by Monadjem <i>et al.</i> (2013 <i>b</i>) and Rosevear (1965), the coloration of our specimen is a much darker brown than the ‘palish brown’ or ‘sandy coloration’ mentioned for ‘ <i>Eptesicus somalicus</i> ’ in Rosevear (1965) or for ‘ <i>E. capensis somalicus</i> ’ in Aellen (1952). Its ecological characterization as a savannah species agrees well with our capture in one of the drier habitats of the study area at CMR. We follow the African Chiroptera Report (ACR 2015) and Riccucci and Lanza (2008) in using <i>N. somalica,</i> as opposed to <i>N. somalicus</i>. The type specimen of <i>N. somalica</i> comes from Hargheisa, Somalia (ACR, 2015; Lanza <i>et al.,</i> 2015) in the extremely arid Horn of Africa. As yet, no specimens of this species have been sequenced from this region, and the taxonomic affinities of the two specimens from moist tropical woodlands of Guinea and Liberia, mentioned above, in relation to those from the Horn of Africa require investigation. <i>Conservation status</i> Least Concern. Population trend is unknown (IUCN, 2015).
description: Published as part of <i>Decher, Jan, Hoffmann, Anke, Schaer, Juliane, N Orris, Ryan W., Kadjo, Blaise, Astrin, Jonas, Monadjem, Ara &amp; Hutterer, Rainer, 2015, Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid, pp. 255-282 in Acta Chiropterologica 17 (2)</i> on page 273, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3943621
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