Mongalla free-tailed bat

Species of bat

Mongalla free-tailed bat
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Molossidae
Genus: Mops
Species:
M. demonstrator
Binomial name
Mops demonstrator
Thomas, 1903
Synonyms
  • Nyctinomus demonstrator Thomas, 1903[2]
  • Tadarida demonstrator (Thomas, 1903)[1]
  • Mops faradjius J. A. Allen, 1917[2]
  • Chaerephon demonstrator (Thomas, 1903)[3]

The Mongalla free-tailed bat (Mops demonstrator) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

Taxonomy and systematics

The Mongalla free-tailed bat was first described as Nyctinomus demonstrator by the British mammologist Oldfield Thomas in 1903 on the basis of an adult male specimen collected from Mongalla, South Sudan.[4] It was moved to the genus Tadarida in 1914 when Nyctinomus was lumped with the former by Marcus Ward Lyon Jr.[5] In 1983, Patricia Freeman raised Mops from a subgenus within Tadarida to a full genus and included the Mongalla free-tailed bat within it.[6] The species is also called the Mongalla mops bat and Mongallan mops bat.[1] It has no recognized subspecies.[7]

Within its genus, the Mongalla free-tailed bat is placed in the subgenus Mops. Within the genus, it is most closely related to the white-bellied free-tailed bat, which has sometimes been treated as a subspecies of the present species.[7] Its relationship to other species in the genus are unclear, with a 2015 morphological study by Renato Gregorin and Andrea Cirranello finding relationships within Mops to be uncertain.[8]

Status

The Mongalla free-tailed bat is listed as being of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. However, its population is currently thought to be decreasing. It occurs in some protected areas, such as the Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is threatened by habitat loss caused by the cutting of large trees it roosts in, along with desertification in the north of its range.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Monadjem, A.; Cotterill, F.P.D.; Bergmans, W.; Mickleburgh, S.; Hutson, A.M.; Fahr, J. (2017). "Mops demonstrator". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T13840A22075708. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T13840A22075708.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Van Cakenberghe, Victor; Seamark, Ernest (2021). Van Cakenberghe, Victor; Seamark, Ernest (eds.). "African Chiroptera Report 2021" (PDF). African Chiroptera Report. Pretoria: AfricanBats NPC: 3102, 3105. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.21262.28481. ISSN 1990-6471.
  3. ^ "Taxon Details | Chaerephon demonstrator". MCZbase. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  4. ^ Thomas, Oldfield (1903). "Three new species of Nyctinomus". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7. 12. London: Taylor and Francis: 504–505. doi:10.1080/00222930308678887 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. ^ Lyon Jr., Marcus Ward (1914). "Tadarida Rafinesque versus Nyctinomus Geoffroy". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 27. Washington: Biological Society of Washington: 217–218 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  6. ^ Freeman, Patricia (1981-03-31). "A multivariate study of the family Molossidae (Mammalia, Chiroptera): morphology, ecology, evolution". Fieldiana. 7. Field Museum of Natural History: 36. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.3128. OCLC 7418396 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  7. ^ a b Jakob, Fahr (2013). "Tadarida demonstrator Mongalla free-tailed bat". In Happold, Meredith; Happold, David (eds.). Mammals of Africa: Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats. Vol. 4. London: A&C Black. pp. 509–511. ISBN 978-1-4081-2251-8. OCLC 822025146.
  8. ^ Gregorin, Renato; Cirranello, Andrea (2016). "Phylogeny of Molossidae Gervais (Mammalia: Chiroptera) inferred by morphological data". Cladistics. 32 (1): 2–35. doi:10.1111/cla.12117. ISSN 0748-3007. PMID 34732020.
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Extant species of family Molossidae
Subfamily Molossinae
Chaerephon
(Lesser mastiff bats)
  • Duke of Abruzzi's free-tailed bat (C. aloysiisabaudiae)
  • C. atsinanana
  • Ansorge's free-tailed bat (C. ansorgei)
  • Gland-tailed free-tailed bat (C. bemmeleni)
  • Spotted free-tailed bat (C. bivittata)
  • Fijian mastiff bat (C. bregullae)
  • Chapin's free-tailed bat (C. chapini)
  • Gallagher's free-tailed bat (C. gallagheri)
  • Northern freetail bat (C. jobensis)
  • Red free-tailed bat (C. jobimena)
  • Northern free-tailed bat (C. johorensis)
  • Grandidier's free-tailed bat (C. leucogaster)
  • Lappet-eared free-tailed bat (C. major)
  • Nigerian free-tailed bat (C. nigeriae)
  • Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat (C. plicata)
  • Little free-tailed bat (C. pumila)
  • Russet free-tailed bat (C. russata)
  • Solomons mastiff bat (C. solomonis)
  • São Tomé free-tailed bat (C. tomensis)
Cheiromeles
(Naked bats)
Cynomops
  • Cinnamon dog-faced bat (C. abrasus)
  • Freeman's dog-faced bat (C. freemani)
  • Greenhall's dog-faced bat (C. greenhalli)
  • Mexican dog-faced bat (C. mexicanus)
  • C. milleri
  • Para dog-faced bat (C. paranus)
  • Southern dog-faced bat (C. planirostris)
Eumops
(Mastiff bats)
  • Black bonneted bat (E. auripendulus)
  • Dwarf bonneted bat (E. bonariensis)
  • Big bonneted bat (E. dabbenei)
  • E. ferox
  • Florida bonneted bat (E. floridanus)
  • Wagner's bonneted bat (E. glaucinus)
  • Sanborn's bonneted bat (E. hansae)
  • Guianan bonneted bat (E. maurus)
  • E. nanus
  • Patagonian bonneted bat (E. patagonicus)
  • Western mastiff bat (E. perotis)
  • Colombian bonneted bat (E. trumbulli)
  • Underwood's bonneted bat (E. underwoodi)
  • E. wilsoni
Mormopterus
Subgenus Mormopterus
Natal free-tailed bat (M. acetabulosus)
M. francoismoutoui
Sumatran mastiff bat (M. doriae)
Peters's wrinkle-lipped bat (M. jugularis)
Kalinowski's mastiff bat (M. kalinowskii)
Little goblin bat (M. minutus)
Incan little mastiff bat (M. phrudus)
Subgenus Micronomus
East-coast free-tailed bat (M. norfolkensis)
Subgenus Ozimops
Beccari's free-tailed bat (M. beccarii)
M. halli
M. kitcheneri
M. loriae
M. lumsdenae
M. petersi
Southern free-tailed bat (M. planiceps)
Eastern free-tailed bat (M. ridei)
Subgenus Setirostris
M. eleryi
Molossops
(Broad-faced bats)
  • Equatorial dog-faced bat (M. (Cabreramops) aequatorianus)
  • Mato Grosso dog-faced bat (M. mattogrossensis)
  • Rufous dog-faced bat (M. neglectus)
  • Dwarf dog-faced bat (M. temminckii)
Molossus
(Velvety free-tailed bats)
  • Aztec mastiff bat (M. aztecus)
  • M. barnesi
  • Coiban mastiff bat (M. coibensis)
  • Bonda mastiff bat (M. currentium)
  • Velvety free-tailed bat (M. molossus)
  • Miller's mastiff bat (M. pretiosus)
  • Black mastiff bat (M. rufus)
  • Sinaloan mastiff bat (M. sinaloae)
  • M. trinitatus
Mops
(Greater mastiff bats)
Subgenus Xiphonycteris
Spurrell's free-tailed bat (M. spurrelli)
Dwarf free-tailed bat (M. nanulus)
Peterson's free-tailed bat (M. petersoni)
M. leonis
Sierra Leone free-tailed bat (M. brachyptera)
M. bakarii
Railer bat (M. thersites)
Subgenus Mops
Angolan free-tailed bat (M. condylurus)
White-bellied free-tailed bat (M. niveiventer)
Mongalla free-tailed bat (M. demonstrator)
Malayan free-tailed bat (M. mops)
Sulawesi free-tailed bat (M. sarasinorum)
Trevor's free-tailed bat (M. trevori)
M. congica
Midas free-tailed bat (M. midas)
Niangara free-tailed bat (M. niangarae)
Medje free-tailed bat (M. congicus)
M. leucostigma
Myopterus
  • Daubenton's free-tailed bat (M. daubentonii)
  • Bini free-tailed bat (M. whitleyi)
Neoplatymops
  • Mato Grosso dog-faced bat (N. mattogrossensis)
Nyctinomops
(New World
free-tailed bats)
  • Peale's free-tailed bat (N. aurispinosus)
  • Pocketed free-tailed bat (N. femorosaccus)
  • Broad-eared bat (N. laticaudatus)
  • Big free-tailed bat (N. macrotis)
Otomops
(Big-eared
free-tailed bats)
  • Javan mastiff bat (O. formosus)
  • Harrison's large-eared giant mastiff bat (O. harrisoni)
  • Johnstone's mastiff bat (O. johnstonei)
  • Madagascar free-tailed bat (O. madagascariensis)
  • Large-eared free-tailed bat (O. martiensseni)
  • Big-eared mastiff bat (O. papuensis)
  • Mantled mastiff bat (O. secundus)
  • Wroughton's free-tailed bat (O. wroughtoni)
Platymops
  • Peters's flat-headed bat (P. setiger)
Promops
(Domed-palate
mastiff bats)
  • Big crested mastiff bat (P. centralis)
  • P. davisoni
  • Brown mastiff bat (P. nasutus)
Sauromys
  • Roberts's flat-headed bat (S. petrophilus)
Tadarida
(Free-tailed bats)
  • Egyptian free-tailed bat (T. aegyptiaca)
  • White-striped free-tailed bat (T. australis)
  • Mexican free-tailed bat (T. brasiliensis)
  • Madagascan large free-tailed bat (T. fulminans)
  • European free-tailed bat (T. insignis)
  • New Guinea free-tailed bat (T. kuboriensis)
  • La Touche's free-tailed bat (T. latouchei)
  • Kenyan big-eared free-tailed bat (T. lobata)
  • European free-tailed bat (T. teniotis)
  • African giant free-tailed bat (T. ventralis)
Subfamily Tomopeatinae
Tomopeas
  • Blunt-eared bat (T. ravus)
Taxon identifiers
Mops demonstrator
Nyctinomus demonstrator