Description of a new bat species of the tribe Scotonycterini (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae) from southwestern Cameroon

Hassanin, Alexandre

doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2013.12.006

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“…These studies have uncovered many disagreements between topologies derived from molecular analyses and morphology-based classifications originally proposed by Andersen (1912) and significantly improved by Bergmans (1997; see also Giannini and Simmons, 2005). Some recent studies focused on particular groups and proposed relevant changes in the classification (Giannini et al, 2006(Giannini et al, , 2008Nesi et al, 2013;Hassanin, 2014;Almeida et al, 2016), A new subfamily Eidolinae was. erected to contain the rather enigmatic genus Eidolon (Almeida et al, 2016), and Boneia joined Dobsonia, Aproteles, and Harpyionycteris in a substantially expanded Harpyionycterinae (Giannini et al, 2006(Giannini et al, , 2009.…”

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A Species-Level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-Level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae

Almeida

Simmons

Giannini

2020

American Museum Novitates

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Old World fruit bats (Chiroptera: Yinpterochiroptera: Pteropodidae) are a diverse radiation endemic to the tropics of Africa, Asia, Australia, and nearby island archipelagos. Recent molecular analyses have provided considerable resolution of phylogenetic relationships within this group, but many points of uncertainty have remained including the position of several enigmatic taxa (e.g., Notopteris, Eidolon), relationships among species in more diverse subfamilies and genera (e.g., Pteropodinae, Pteropus, Epomophorus), and topology of the backbone of the tree. Here we provide a new, synthetic analysis including representatives of all 45 currently recognized genera and enhanced sampling in several speciose genera, Our matrix included four nuclear genes regions (vWF, RAGI, RAG2, and BRCA1) and four mitochondrial gene loci (Cytb, tRNA valine, 12S rRNA, and 16S rRNA) for a total of >8000 bp including new sequence data for 13 species. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses resulted in trees supporting recognition of six main suprageneric clades similar in content to those identified in our previous studies. We did not recover strong support for relationships among the main clades along

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A Species-Level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-Level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae

Almeida

Simmons

Giannini

2020

American Museum Novitates

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“…Casinycteris argynnis is a solitary and rare species and only a single individual was captured at the park. A closely related species, C. campomaanensis, was discovered in the locality of Campo-Ma'an in the South of the country (Hassanin, 2014). Only two records of G. egeria were previously known in the South West region of Cameroon (forest zone).…”

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The bat fauna of the Mpem and Djim National Park, Cameroon (Mammalia Chiroptera)

Atagana¹,

Fils²,

Waghiiwimbom³

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Biodiversity Journal

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The present study reports on a bat inventory in the Mpem and Djim National Park (Mammalia Chiroptera), in the Centre region of Cameroon. Fourteen sites were surveyed from July 2016 to January 2017. A total of 166 bats were captured. This included 14 species, 11 genera, and five families. All species are globally ranked as "Least Concern" except Glauconycteris egeria, a Data Deficient species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of threatened species. Micropteropus pusillus and Lissonycteris angolensis were recorded from previous surveys in all the ten regions of the country encompassing five agroecological zones. Out of the fourteen species, ten species are known to occur both in the forest and the savanna, while four are reported only from the forest. This study provides baseline data about Chiropteran fauna of this protected area.

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“…Three mitochondrial genes were sequenced for this study: the 5′ fragment of the CO1 gene, the complete cytochrome b ( Cytb ) gene, and the 5′ fragment of the 12S rRNA gene ( 12S ). The primers used for PCR amplification of mitochondrial genes were UTyrLA and C1‐L705 for CO1 (Hassanin et al., ), CB‐GLU‐CH2 and CB‐LTHR‐CH for Cytb (Hassanin, ) and 12S‐U1230M2‐CH (5′‐GCA‐CTG‐AAA‐ATG‐CYT‐AGA‐TG‐3′) and 12S‐L2226M1 (Hassanin et al., ) for 12S . Four nuclear genes were sequenced for a subset of samples: intron 10 of HDAC2 ( histon deacetylase 2 gene), intron 6 of RIOK3 ( RIO kinase 3 gene), intron 6 of ZFYVE27 (zinc finger, FYVE domain containing 27), and the recombination activating gene 2 ( RAG2 ).…”

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Multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation within the genusGlauconycteris(Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), with the description of a new bat species from the Tshopo Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Hassanin

Colombo²,

Gembu

et al. 2017

J Zool Syst Evol Res

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The genus Glauconycteris Dobson, 1875 currently contains 12 species of butterfly bats, all endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. Most species are rarely recorded, with half of the species known from less than six geographic localities. The taxonomic status of several species remains problematic. Here, we studied the systematics of butterfly bats using both morphological and molecular approaches. We examined 45 adult specimens for external anatomy and skull morphology, and investigated the phylogeny of Glauconycteris using DNA sequences from three mitochondrial genes and 116 individuals, which in addition to outgroup taxa, included nine of the twelve butterfly bat species currently recognized. Four additional nuclear genes were sequenced on a reduced sample of 69 individuals, covering the outgroup and Glauconycteris species. Our molecular results show that the genus Glauconycteris is monophyletic, and that it is the sister-group of the Asian genus Hesperoptenus.Molecular dating estimates based on either Cytb or RAG2 data sets suggest that the ancestor of Glauconycteris migrated into Africa from Asia during the Tortonian age of the Late Miocene (11.6-7.2 Mya), while the basal diversification of the crown group occurred in Africa at around 6 AE 2 Mya. The species G. superba is found to be the sister-group of G. variegata, questioning its placement in the recently

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Description of a new bat species of the tribe Scotonycterini (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae) from southwestern Cameroon

Cited by 16 publications

References 10 publications

A Species-Level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-Level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae

A Species-Level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-Level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae

The bat fauna of the Mpem and Djim National Park, Cameroon (Mammalia Chiroptera)

Multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation within the genusGlauconycteris(Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), with the description of a new bat species from the Tshopo Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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