Rendall's serotine
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Vespertilionidae |
Genus: | Pseudoromicia |
Species: | P. rendalli
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Binomial name | |
Pseudoromicia rendalli (Thomas, 1889)
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Rendall's serotine (Pseudoromicia rendalli) is a species of
Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are savanna and subtropical or tropical shrubland
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It is threatened by habitat loss
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The species was first described in 1889 as Vesperago Rendalli by Oldfield Thomas, based on a specimen collected by dr. Percy Rendall at Bathurst, on the river Gambia.[2]
References
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- ^ Thomas, Oldfield (1889). "Description of a new Bat from the Gambia. Vesperago (Vesperus) Rendalli, sp. n." The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany and Geology. 6. 3: 362–364.