Parahypsugo

Parahypsugo is a genus of bat in the family Vespertilionidae. Members of this genus are distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and were formerly classified in either Pipistrellus, Neoromicia, or Hypsugo until being reclassified into the new genus Parahypsugo in a 2019 study. The study also described a new species in the genus, named P. happoldorum, and also found the subspecies Pipistrellus eisentrauti bellieri to constitute a separate species within Parahypsugo. The name of the genus roughly translates to "near Hypsugo", which references the close genetic and morphological relationship between this genus and Hypsugo.[1]

Parahypsugo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Tribe: Vespertilionini
Genus: Parahypsugo
Hutterer, Decher, Monadjem & Astrin, 2019
Species

Species
  • Parahypsugo bellieri (De Vree, 1972)[2]
  • Parahypsugo crassulus (Thomas, 1904) (broad-headed pipistrelle)[3]
  • Parahypsugo eisentrauti (Hill, 1968) (Eisentraut's pipistrelle)[4]
  • Parahypsugo happoldorum Hutterer, Decher, Monadjem & Astrin, 2019 (Happold's pipistrelle)[5]
  • Parahypsugo macrocephalusHutterer & Kerbis Peterhans, 2019

References
  1. Hutterer, Rainer; Decher, Jan; Monadjem, Ara; Astrin, Jonas (October 2019). "A New Genus and Species of Vesper Bat from West Africa, with Notes on Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)". Acta Chiropterologica. 21 (1): 1–22. doi:10.3161/15081109ACC2019.21.1.001. ISSN 1508-1109.
  2. taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Parahypsugo bellieri)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  3. taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Parahypsugo crassulus)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  4. taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Parahypsugo eisentrauti)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  5. taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Parahypsugo happoldorum)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.