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ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
卷 196, 期 4, 页码 1570-1590出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac071
关键词
Africa; Mammalia; mitochondrial DNA; morphometrics; Neoromicia; taxonomy; Vespertilionidae
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- National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project
- Wild Bird Trust
- University of Venda
- National Research Foundation
- Department of Science and Innovation under the South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI)
- Centre for Invasion Biology at the University of Stellenbosch [87311]
- South African Research Chair at the University of Pretoria [UID: 98339]
- National Research Foundation [UID: 78566]
The genus-level and species-level taxonomy of African pipistrelloid bats have been changing in the past decade. This study reports on new collections from Angola, Eswatini, and South Africa, revealing genetic and morphological differences from previously known species. The findings support the recent proposed classification of African pipistrelloid bats.
Ten years ago, the genus-level and species-level taxonomy of African pipistrelloid bats was in a state of flux. In spite of advances in the past decade, gaps in collecting from species-rich regions like Angola have hampered efforts to revise this group. We report on new collections of pipistrelle-like bats from the poorly sampled central highlands of Angola (1000-1500 m a.s.l.) as well as comparative material from lower-lying areas of Eswatini and South Africa. Specimens identified as Neoromicia anchietae, collected 400-700 km east of the holotype locality in the western highlands of Angola, were genetically and morphologically distinctive from N. anchietae s.l. from South Africa and Eswatini. We describe herein this latter lineage as a distinct species from low-lying areas of south-eastern Africa, distinct from N. anchietae s.s., which is therefore restricted to the central and western Angolan highlands. We also identified shallow to deep genetic divergence between different African regions in other recognized pipistrelloid species, such as conspecificity between the long-eared species Laephotis angolensis from Angola and Laephotis botswanae from northern Botswana, northern Namibia and south-western Zambia. Our phylogeny supports a recently proposed generic classification of African pipistrelloid bats.
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