Contribution à l'étude de la faune d'Afghanistan 9. Chiroptères

Abstract

REVUE SUISSE DE ZOOLOGIE 353 J. L. Chaworth-Musters a fait un voyage en Afghanistan pour la recherche des Mammifères. Je ne sais si des Chiroptères ont été rapportés; il semble, en tous cas, qu'aucun travail les concernant ait été publié. Jordan (Proc. zool. Soc. London 114: 360-367, 1944), qui a étudié les Siphonaptères des Mammifères recueillis, ne cite aucune Chauve-souris.Rev.

Taxonomic Studies on the Indian Horseshoe Bats of the Genus Rhinolophus Lacepede

“…separated R. monticola from R. lepidus by the smaller size of the body, narrower horseshoe, shorter metacarpal of third, fourth and fifth fingers and narrower nasal swellings. Aellen (1959) could not find any major difference between these two species and considered R. monticola as a subspecies of R. lepidus. However, specimens of the latter present in the Zoological Survey of India have longer metacarpals on the third, fourth and fifth fingers than does R. monticola as given by .…”

“…Aellen (1959) recently recorded it from Afghanistan. 13.6, -8.8, 9 7.5, 7.8 4.9, 5.1 6.7, 6.8 4.5, 4.8 6.5, 6.8 6.9, 7.2 11.2, 11.8 -R. l short ridgei Andersen.…”

“…Though casual information on their morphology, taxonomy, distribution and interrelationship is recorded in the work of Blyth (1863), Dobson (1876Dobson ( , 1878, Anderson (1881), Blanford (1891), Andersen ( , b, 1907Andersen ( , 1918, Miller (1907), Wroughton (1918), Täte (1939), Täte and Archbold (1943), Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Aellen (1959), Brosset (1962), Hill (1962), Prakash (1963), Mirza (1965) and Kurup (1968), the Indian bats of this genus with some exceptions are relatively little known. There has been no recent review of their characters and affinities.…”

The systematic status of Southeast Asian Nycteris (Chiroptera: Nycteridae)

“…However, Aellen (1959) separated N. javanica from all other Nycteris species, because the latter have either bi-or tricuspid teeth, whereas only the former shows a combination of both conditions. Aellen (1959) arranged N. tragata together with N. arge, N. nana and N. major in a new group, which he named the arge group.…”

Notes on Bats From Iran

“…While 49 out of this 52 specimens refered to Miniopterus schreibersi pulcher which Harrison (1956) described from Ser, Amadia, Kurdistan Iraq, one specimen was comparable with the Miniopterus schreibersi pallidus which Thomas (1907) has introduced from Southern shore of Caspian sea, and two specimens have intermediate colour. Aellen (1959) believes that pulcher and pallidus are one subspecies. Lewis and Harrison (1962) stated « It seems posible that a colour cline is present in the region, of which pulcher is the extreme.…”