2023
DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2022.2156002
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A review of bats of the genus Pseudoromicia (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with the description of a new species

Abstract: The Cameroon Volcanic Line, which divides the Congo Basin fauna from the West African fauna, is a known area of high endemism for various taxa, but the region's bat fauna has received little attention. We review variation in morphological and molecular (mitochondrial 1 Cytochrome b) characters in the Tropical African vespertilionid bat genus Pseudoromicia.Assessment of this variation indicates the existence of a new species of Pseudoromicia, from the Mbam Minkom Massif in the Centre Region of Cameroon. The new… Show more

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“…West Africa has already been recognized as a region with a high number of endemic species. It was proposed that the so-called Dahomey Gap, which in recent times is approximately located alongside the Cross River, Nigeria, close to the border to Cameroon, had separated western and eastern African rainforests during arid periods, thus representing a past biogeographic barrier for forest-dwelling species (Maley 1996; further references and discussion of this topic in Koubínová et al ., 2013 and Grunwald et al ., 2023). Our molecular data and baculum morphology of Nycticeinop s species support the notion of divergent lineages west and east of the Dahomey Gap.…”
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“…West Africa has already been recognized as a region with a high number of endemic species. It was proposed that the so-called Dahomey Gap, which in recent times is approximately located alongside the Cross River, Nigeria, close to the border to Cameroon, had separated western and eastern African rainforests during arid periods, thus representing a past biogeographic barrier for forest-dwelling species (Maley 1996; further references and discussion of this topic in Koubínová et al ., 2013 and Grunwald et al ., 2023). Our molecular data and baculum morphology of Nycticeinop s species support the notion of divergent lineages west and east of the Dahomey Gap.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Currently, the genus Pseudoromicia comprises ten species, of which seven have been described since 2013 (for overview see Grunwald et al ., 2023; Juste et al ., 2023). However, chromosomal data are known from only three Pseudoromicia species so far (Table 4).…”
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“…With the arrival of the molecular and genomic era, most new bat species described in recent decades have been a product of resolved cryptic species complexes [ 12 16 ]. However, the unique use of molecular data for splitting species has caused some debate since not all molecular markers are useful for disentangling species [ 3 ].…”
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confidence: 99%