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A phylogeny for African Pipistrellus species with the description of a new species from West Africa (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Zool J Linn Soc 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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AbstractPipistrelloid bats are among the most poorly known bats in Africa, a status no doubt exacerbated by their small size, drab brown fur and general similarity in external morphology. The systematic relationships of these bats have been a matter of debate for decades, and despite some recent molecular studies, much confusion remains. Adding to the confusion has been the recent discovery of numerous new species. Using two mitochondrial genes, we present a phylogeny for this group that supports the existence of three main clades in Africa: Pipistrellus, Neoromicia and the recently described Parahypsugo. However, the basal branches of the tree are poorly supported. Using an integrative taxonomic approach, we describe a new species of Pipistrellus sp. nov. from West Africa, which has been cited as Pipistrellus cf. grandidieri in the literature. We demonstrate that it is not closely related to Pipistrellus grandidieri from East Africa, but instead is sister to Pipistrellus hesperidus. Furthermore, the species Pi. grandidieri appears to be embedded in the newly described genus Parahypsugo, and is therefore better placed in that genus than in Pipistrellus. This has important taxonomic implications, because a new subgenus (Afropipistrellus) described for Pi. grandidieri predates Parahypsugo and should therefore be used for the entire “Parahypsugo” clade. The Upper Guinea rainforest zone, and particularly the upland areas in the south-eastern Guinea—northern Liberia border region may represent a global hotspot for pipistrelloid bats and should receive increased conservation focus as a result.
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Borloti I, Dinis H, Vasconcelos R. Bats Out of Africa: Disentangling the Systematic Position and Biogeography of Bats in Cabo Verde. Genes (Basel) 2020; 11:genes11080877. [PMID: 32752266 PMCID: PMC7464910 DOI: 10.3390/genes11080877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Revised: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Cabo Verde Archipelago presents one of the largest knowledge gaps in the distribution and taxonomy of bats in the world. Old works indicated that there are five species classified as European taxa. We have conducted an integrative taxonomy to revise the systematic position and distribution of Cabo Verdean bats with molecular, morphological, and ecological data, to test their native or exotic origin, and infer possible colonization patterns based on fieldwork and museum samples. Results showed that Cabo Verde Hypsugo is closely related to those from the Canary Islands, in which the taxonomic status is under debate, presenting unique mitochondrial and nuclear haplotypes. We also expanded the distribution of Taphozous nudiventris for Fogo Island through pellets and acoustic identification, showed unique haplotypes for this species, and that Miniopterus schreibersii shared a haplotype with European, North African, and Western Asian specimens. The morphological and acoustic identification of Cabo Verdean specimens was challenging because of the lack of modern morphological descriptions and similarity of echolocation calls within the same genus. More studies are definitely needed to access the systematic of bat species in the archipelago, but this work is the first step for the establishment of conservation actions of the probable only native Cabo Verdean mammals.
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- Ianna Borloti
- CIBIO-InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal;
- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
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- Parque Natural do Fogo, Direcção Nacional do Ambiente, 115 Chã d’Areia—Praia, Santiago, São Lourenço dos Orgãos CP 84, Cape Verde;
- Associação Projecto Vitó, 8234 Xaguate, Cidade de São Filipe, Fogo 8220, Cabo Verde
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- CIBIO-InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +351-252-660-400
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Benda P, Kasso M, Nicolas V, Pleurdeau D, Stoetzel E, Workalemahu S, Bekele A, Denys C. New data on bats from Dire Dawa region, eastern Ethiopia, with the first record of Rhinopoma microphyllum in the country. J NAT HIST 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1705416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- P. Benda
- Department of Zoology, National Museum (Natural History), Praha 1, Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Praha 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Dire Dawa University, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) UMR 7205, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Paris, France
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- Histoire Naturelle de l’Homme Préhistorique (HNHP) UMR 7194, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, UPVD, Paris, France
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- Histoire Naturelle de l’Homme Préhistorique (HNHP) UMR 7194, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, UPVD, Paris, France
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- College of Health Science, CHAMPS Project, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia
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- Department of Zoological Sciences, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) UMR 7205, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Paris, France
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Lisón F, Jiménez‐Franco MV, Altamirano A, Haz Á, Calvo JF, Jones G. Bat ecology and conservation in semi‐arid and arid landscapes: a global systematic review. Mamm Rev 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/mam.12175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Fulgencio Lisón
- Laboratorio de Ecología del Paisaje y Conservación Departamento de Ciencias Forestales Universidad de La Frontera Box‐45D Temuco Chile
- Departamento de Zoología Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C Concepción Chile
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- Área de Ecología Departamento de Biología Aplicada Universidad Miguel Hernández Avda. Universidad, s/n. Edf. Vinalopó 03202 Elche, Alicante Spain
- Department of Ecological Modelling UFZ‐Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research D‐04301 Leipzig Germany
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- Laboratorio de Ecología del Paisaje y Conservación Departamento de Ciencias Forestales Universidad de La Frontera Box‐45D Temuco Chile
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- Paseo Rosales 10 4D, Molina de Segura 30500 Murcia Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología Universidad de Murcia 30100 Campus de Espinardo Murcia Spain
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- School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol 24 Tyndall Avenue BS8 1TQ Bristol UK
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Seasonal activity pattern and habitat use by the Kuhl’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) in an arid environment. EUR J WILDLIFE RES 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10344-018-1193-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Benda P, Reiter A, Uhrin M, Varadínová Z. A New Species of Pipistrelle Bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Southern Arabia. ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA 2016. [DOI: 10.3161/15081109acc2016.18.2.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Andriollo T, Naciri Y, Ruedi M. Two Mitochondrial Barcodes for one Biological Species: The Case of European Kuhl's Pipistrelles (Chiroptera). PLoS One 2015; 10:e0134881. [PMID: 26241944 PMCID: PMC4524706 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2015] [Accepted: 07/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Kuhl's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) is a Western Palaearctic species of bat that exhibits several deeply divergent mitochondrial lineages across its range. These lineages could represent cryptic species or merely ancient polymorphism, but no nuclear markers have been studied so far to properly assess the taxonomic status of these lineages. We examined here two lineages occurring in Western Europe, and used both mitochondrial and nuclear markers to measure degrees of genetic isolation between bats carrying them. The sampling focused on an area of strict lineage sympatry in Switzerland but also included bats from further south, in North Africa. All individuals were barcoded for the COI gene to identify their mitochondrial lineages and five highly polymorphic microsatellite loci were used to cluster them according to their nuclear genotypes. Despite this low number of nuclear markers, all North African nuclear genotypes were grouped in a highly distinct subpopulation when compared with European samples sharing the same mitochondrial barcodes. The reverse situation prevailed in Switzerland where bats carrying distinct barcodes had similar nuclear genotypes. There was a weak east/west nuclear structure of populations, but this was independent of mitochondrial lineages as bats carrying either variant were completely admixed. Thus, the divergent mitochondrial barcodes present in Western Europe do not represent cryptic species, but are part of a single biological species. We argue that these distinct barcodes evolved in allopatry and came recently into secondary contact in an area of admixture north of the Alps. Historical records from this area and molecular dating support such a recent bipolar spatial expansion. These results also highlight the need for using appropriate markers before claiming the existence of cryptic species based on highly divergent barcodes.
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- Tommy Andriollo
- Muséum d’histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève, BP 6434, 1211 Geneva 6, Switzerland
- Université de Genève, Faculté des Sciences, Section de biologie, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Université de Genève, Faculté des Sciences, Section de biologie, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
- Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and University of Geneva, BP 60, 1292 Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Muséum d’histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève, BP 6434, 1211 Geneva 6, Switzerland
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