Biology:Parahypsugo

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Short description: Genus of bats

Parahypsugo
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Tribe: Vespertilionini
Genus: Parahypsugo
Hutterer, Decher, Monadjem & Astrin, 2019
Species
  • P. bellieri
  • P. crassulus
  • P. eisentrauti
  • P. happoldorum
  • P. macrocephalus

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]

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

Wikidata ☰ Q85792163 entry