Miniopterus griveaudi
Miniopterus griveaudi is a bat in the genus Miniopterus found on Grande Comore and Anjouan in the Comoros and in northern and western Madagascar. It is usually dark brown, but sometimes reddish. The tragus is narrow and ends in a rounded tip.
About Miniopterus griveaudi in brief
Miniopterus griveaudi is a bat in the genus Miniopterus found on Grande Comore and Anjouan in the Comoros and in northern and western Madagascar. It is usually dark brown, but sometimes reddish. The tragus is narrow and ends in a rounded tip. The uropatagium appears virtually naked. The species occurs up to 480 m above sea level on Madagascar, often in karstic areas. It roosts in lava tubes as well as shallower caves. Females collected on Grande comore in November were pregnant, but data on reproduction is limited and suggests individual and inter-island variation. The head is usually somewhat lighter than the body and the underparts have buffish underparts underparts. Other species have differently shaped tragi at the wing membrane. In Comoros, individual colonies or groups sometimes consist exclusively of one variant, but there is no apparent genetic differentiation between the two forms.
In Madagascar, the head is also brown but the uropagium is alsobrown, but the wing membranes are also brown. M. griveaudi occupies an isolated position among African and Malagasy Minipterus. MiniopterUS griveaud is a small brown MiniopterUs species. M manavi is darker, but M brachytragos and M.ahafaliensis are occasionally reddish upperparts are occasionally lighter. The color of this variant occurs more often in Comoros populations than the Comoro populations on Madagascar. The name grivaudi honors Paul Griveaud, who collected the specimens on which Harrison based his description.
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