The Bibundi bat (''Glauconycteris egeria'') is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It can be found in Cameroon,

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, Uganda, and the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve.

Taxonomy

It was described as a new species in 1913 by British zoologist

Oldfield Thomas Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (21 February 1858 – 16 June 1929) was a British zoologist. Career Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and subspecies for the first time. He was appoin ...

. The holotype had been collected in Bibundi, Cameroon by R. Kemp during the Rudd Exploration. Based on molecular evidence, it is closely related to the

silvered bat The silvered bat (''Glauconycteris argentata'') is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda ...

(''G. argentata'').

Description

Its flight membranes are brown, and it has dusky brown fur. Its fur can also be dark brown or nearly black. It has conspicuous whitish stripes on the sides of its back Its forearm length is approximately . The head and body measures while the tail is long. It has very large ears, with fairly large

tragi The tragus is a small pointed eminence of the external ear, situated in front of the concha, and projecting backward over the meatus. It also is the name of hair growing at the entrance of the ear. Its name comes the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'g ...

Range and habitat

The Bibundi bat is an African species, with documented occurrence in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Uganda. It is rarely encountered, with records from only six localities as of 2018.

Conservation

As of 2019, it is evaluated as a

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species by the

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because there is little is known about it.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1833024 Glauconycteris Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Bats of Africa Mammals described in 1913 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot