A new genus of African Vesper Bat, with species updates for Gabon

English

A new genus of rare African vespertilionid bat has been described from South Sudan (Reeder et al.,2013). Niumbaha sp replaces Glauconycteris superba on the basis of cranial and external morphological comparisons. In the same study, museum specimens were re-examined and a new country record for Gabon, Glauconycteris curryae was recorded. Another species of Glauconycteris, G. argentata was recently recorded for the first time in Gabon (Peereboom et al., 2012).

References  
Reeder DM, Helgen KM, Vodzak ME, Lunde DP, Ejotre I (2013) A new genus for a rare African vespertilionid bat: insights from South Sudan. Zookeys (285): 89-115.

Peereboom D, van Lieshout S, Jeffery KJ, Bergmans W (2012) First record and echolocation call of Glauconycteris argentata (Dobson, 1875) from Gabon. African Bat Conservation News 27: 3–5.