First confirmed records of two bat species for Iraq: Rhinolophus euryale and Myotis emarginatus (Chiroptera)
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Omar F. Al-Sheikhly
Abstract
Based on a cave survey, we present the first substantiated data of two bat species from Iraq. Both Mediterranean horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus euryale) and Geoffroy’s bat (Myotis emarginatus) were mentioned in the earlier literature, although none of them was accepted and listed by subsequent authors. We overview the controversial history of the Mediterranean and Mehely’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus mehelyi) records, provide details of the diagnostic characters of vouchered specimens of the former species, and present photographic evidence of the presence of Geoffroy’s bat. Both species are rare in the Middle East, and the territory of Iraq was a gap in their distribution.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank David L. Harrison (Harrison Institute) for his comments and support. Our appreciation extends to Sarbaz I. Mohammad (University of Salahadin, Erbil, Iraq) and Khalid Faiq (University of Kalar, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq) for their assistance during the field work. We would like to thank Faris Al-Obaidi (director of the Iraqi Natural History Research Centre and Museum – University of Baghdad) for his support. We are very grateful to Dorian Leveque (British Library) and Malcolm Pearch (Harrison Institute) for helping us with hardly available literature. Our special thanks are due to the two anonymous reviewers for their expert remarks and corrections on the earlier version of the text.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Original Studies
- Summer temperature and precipitation govern bat diversity at northern latitudes in Norway
- Structure of three subtropical bat assemblages (Chiroptera) in the Andean rainforests of Argentina
- Morphology, genetics and echolocation calls of the genus Kerivoula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Kerivoulinae) in Thailand
- Status and population structure of a hunted population of Marco Polo Argali Ovis ammon polii (Cetartiodactyla, Bovidae) in Southeastern Tajikistan
- Habitat use of Himalayan grey goral in relation to livestock grazing in Machiara National Park, Pakistan
- Characterization and selection of microhabitat of Microcavia australis (Rodentia: Caviidae): first data in a rocky habitat in the hyperarid Monte Desert of Argentina
- Pregastric and caecal fermentation pattern in Syrian hamsters
- Short Notes
- Barn owl pellets collected in coastal savannas yield two additional species of small mammals for French Guiana
- Wiedomys cerradensis (Gonçalves, Almeida, Bonvicino, 2003) (Rodentia, Cricetidae): first record from the state of Maranhão, Brazil
- Morpho-anatomical characteristics of Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) from Potohar Plateau, Pakistan
- First confirmed records of two bat species for Iraq: Rhinolophus euryale and Myotis emarginatus (Chiroptera)
- An efficient timing device to record activity patterns of small mammals in the field
- First record of Leontopithecus chrysopygus (Primates: Callitrichidae) in Carlos Botelho State Park, São Miguel Arcanjo, São Paulo, Brazil
