. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Systematics of African Nycteris II. 309. Fig. 7: Distribution map of Nycteris hispida (Schreber, 1774). Allen (1939) and Rosevear (1965), it is clearly a member of the genus Nycteris. Most authors put this name in synonymy with N. hispida (Schreber, 1774). Braestrup (1935) accepts A^. martini as a subspecies of N. hispida, occurring in the south Sudanese forest area, as counterpart of N. hispida hispida, occurring from Senegal to central Sudan. Koopman (1975) could
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Systematics of African Nycteris II. 309. Fig. 7: Distribution map of Nycteris hispida (Schreber, 1774). Allen (1939) and Rosevear (1965), it is clearly a member of the genus Nycteris. Most authors put this name in synonymy with N. hispida (Schreber, 1774). Braestrup (1935) accepts A^. martini as a subspecies of N. hispida, occurring in the south Sudanese forest area, as counterpart of N. hispida hispida, occurring from Senegal to central Sudan. Koopman (1975) could not distinguish these subspecies in the Sudan. The dubious holotype in the BM also confirms it to be a Nycteris, but since this specimen is indicated to be the holotype of either R. martini or N. poensis, its affinity remains puzzling. Except for the specimen mentioned by Gray (nomen nudum), N. pilosa Gray, 1866 is generally considered to be a synonym of N. hispida (Schreber, 1774). N. pallida is widely accepted as a synonym of N hispida (Schreber, 1774), also because all specimens believed to belong to pallida were males and these are usually a little smaller than females. The smaller measurements given for N. pallida therefore might reñect sexual dimorphism rather than taxonomic differences. Koopman (1965) suggested that a study of topotypical material of N. hispida from Senegal might be necessary to determine whether pallida can be retained as a valid subspecies of N hispida (Schreber, 1774) as proposed by Braestrup (1935). From his study of Sudanese material Koopman (1975) found pallida to be identical with N hispida hispida. This study indicated that the form pallida cannot be separated from the other forms. We follow Verschuren (1957), Koopman (1965, 1975), Rosevear (1965),. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemb
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