Parahypsugo
Appearance
Parahypsugo | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Vespertilionidae |
Tribe: | Vespertilionini |
Genus: | Parahypsugo Hutterer, Decher, Monadjem & Astrin, 2019 |
Species | |
Parahypsugo is a genus of bat in the family Vespertilionidae. Members of this genus are distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and were formerly classified in either Pipistrellus, Neoromicia, or Hypsugo until being reclassified into the new genus Parahypsugo in a 2019 study. The study also described a new species in the genus, named P. happoldorum, and also found the subspecies Pipistrellus eisentrauti bellieri to constitute a separate species within Parahypsugo. The name of the genus roughly translates to "near Hypsugo", which references the close genetic and morphological relationship between this genus and Hypsugo.[1]
Species
- Parahypsugo bellieri (De Vree, 1972)[2]
- Parahypsugo crassulus (Thomas, 1904) (broad-headed pipistrelle)[3]
- Parahypsugo eisentrauti (Hill, 1968) (Eisentraut's pipistrelle)[4]
- Parahypsugo happoldorum Hutterer, Decher, Monadjem & Astrin, 2019 (Happold's pipistrelle)[5]
- Parahypsugo macrocephalusHutterer & Kerbis Peterhans, 2019
References
- ^ Hutterer, Rainer; Decher, Jan; Monadjem, Ara; Astrin, Jonas (October 2019). "A New Genus and Species of Vesper Bat from West Africa, with Notes on Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)". Acta Chiropterologica. 21 (1): 1–22. doi:10.3161/15081109ACC2019.21.1.001. ISSN 1508-1109.
- ^ taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Parahypsugo bellieri)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
- ^ taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Parahypsugo crassulus)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
- ^ taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Parahypsugo eisentrauti)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
- ^ taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Parahypsugo happoldorum)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-10.