Abo bat
| Abo bat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Vespertilionidae |
| Genus: | Glauconycteris |
| Species: | G. poensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Glauconycteris poensis (Gray, 1842)
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The Abo bat (Glauconycteris poensis) is a species of
moist lowland forests
.
Taxonomy and etymology
It was
species name "poensis" means "belonging to Po." The holotype was collected on Fernando Pó, likely inspiring the species name.[2]
Description
Its fur is yellowish-gray in color.[2]
Range and status
It is found in
Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.[1]
It is currently evaluated as
IUCN—its lowest conservation priority.[1]
References
- ^ . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Gray, J.E. (1842). "Descriptions of some new genera and fifty unrecorded species of Mammalia". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 10: 258.