Pipistrellus grandidieri
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
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus grandidieri

description: <i>Pipistrellus</i> cf. <i>grandidieri</i> (Dobson, 1876) <i>New material</i> ZFMK 2008.0300, &amp;female;, FC, 8 March 2008; ZFMK 2008.0301, &amp;male;, FC, 9 March 2008; ZFMK 2008. 0302, &amp;male;, W1, 25 February 2008. One individual was caught in the canopy net set over the creek in the ravine forest at W1 and three individuals of this species were captured at FC. The female from FC carried one embryo of 17 mm crown-rump length. Field notes and photographs document the somewhat yellowish fur of the W1 individual. Our three voucher specimens grouped with a specimen from Mount Nimba (DM 13220/ JX 508839) labelled <i>Pipistrellus</i> sp. 1 in Monadjem <i>et al.</i> (2013 <i>b</i>). We tentatively assign them to <i>Pipistrellus</i> cf. <i>grandidieri</i>, similar to a specimen from Fetto (near Foye, Karanka River) in the Fouta Djallon Region of Guinea (Weber and Fahr, 2007 <i>b</i>) and specimens from Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Cameroon (Monadjem and Fahr, 2007; Weber and Fahr, 2007 <i>b</i>). A first country record from Atewa, Ghana, was also referred to as <i>Neoromicia</i> cf. <i>grandidieri</i> by Weber and Fahr (2007 <i>a</i>), but our genetic results (Fig. 3) do not support this generic allocation. Our measurements agree well with those of the holotype <i>Vesperugo</i> (<i>Vesperus</i>) <i>grandidieri</i> Dobson, 1876 (Thorn <i>et al.</i>, 2007) and they are much smaller than measurements of the newly described species <i>Neoromicia roseveari</i> (Monadjem <i>et al.</i>, 2013 <i>b</i>). Given that the holotype of <i>P. grandidieri</i> is from Zanzibar (Thorn <i>et al.</i>, 2007), this West African form might “possibly represent an undescribed species” (Monadjem and Fahr, 2007: 105). However, <i>x</i> -ray photographs of the baculum of ZFMK 2008.0302 (Fig. 9) showed notable similarity with the drawing of the baculum of <i>P. grandidieri grandidieri</i> from Bamba Mluni, Tanzania (SMF 83513) in Thorn <i>et al.</i> (2007: Fig 2). <i>Conservation status</i> The conservation status of this species has not yet been evaluated by the 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 pages 273-274, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3943621
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