Miniopterus – Wikipedia

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Miniopterus ( Bonaparte, 1837 ) is a kind of bats, the only genre of the family of Miniotteridi .

Size [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Gender Miniopterus Small bats belong, with head length and body between 40 and 78 mm, the length of the forearm between 34 and 59 mm, the length of the tail between 38 and 72 mm and a weight up to 24 g. [first]

Bone and dental characteristics [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

The skull has a high and rounded cranial box, a slender rostrum, with a slight longitudinal concavity on the upper surface and with the tip facing slightly upwards. As in the vestilionids, the pre-masculine bones are without the palatal portion. The orbital crest is low but distinct, while the timpanic bubbles are small. The pre-esteem is very developed and represents most of the sternal bone. The Scapola presents the corakoid right and direct visibly forward.
They are without the penic bone. The upper incisors are low and robust, with the lowest exteriors of the interior. The lower incisors are tricuspidated. The canines are thin while the first top premolar is unusually large.

Are characterized by the following dental formula:

3 2 first 2 2 first 2 3
3 2 first 3 3 first 2 3
Total: 34
1. Incistenti; 2.Canini; 3. Premolar; 4.Molar;

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The fur is short and dense. The color of the body is generally black or dark brown, occasionally with reddish or completely reddish spots. The muzzle is short while the forehead is characterically rounded. The ears are relatively short and slightly rounded, with a rear fold and with the front lobe placed just in dispels the eyes. The sea is short, tanned and slightly curved forward. The second and third metacarpo are about of the same length, being the third distinctly shorter. The second phalanx of the third finger is almost three times the first long. This allows the animal to fall back the end of the wing inwards when it is at rest. The caudal vertebrae are long, between 78% and 113% of the length of the head and body. The wing membranes are attacked posteriorly at the base of the Calcar, in such a way as to form a small pocket.

Eco -termination [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

They emit ultrasound with low work cycle with short -lived pulses with modulated frequency, suitable for predation in open spaces.

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The genre is widespread in southern Europe, Africa, Madagascar and Asia up to Australia and the islands of loyalty.

The genre includes the following species: [2]

M.africanus is considered subspecies of M.inflatus , While M.newtoni Of M.minor .

  1. ^ Novak, 1999 .
  2. ^ ( IN ) D.E. Wilson e D.M. Reeder, Miniopterus , in Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference , 3ª ed., Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
  3. ^ a b A good man, Moninina is a cop, and behind E, Eseanahs ,ahy, rus and emet and met and met and met and met and mets, The use of molecular and morphological characters to resolve the taxonomic identity of cryptic species: the case of Miniopterus manavi (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) , in Zoologica writings , vol. 38, 2009, pp. 339–363. URL consulted on 11 June 2013 (archived by URL Original December 9, 2012) .
  4. ^ a b Goodman SM, Maminirina CP, Bradman HM, Christidis L, Appleton B, The use of molecular phylogenetic and morphological tools to identify cryptic and paraphyletic species : examples from the diminutive long-fingered bats (Chiroptera, Miniopteridae, Miniopterus) on Madagascar , in American Museum Novel , vol. 3669, 2009, pp. 1–34. URL consulted on 11 June 2013 (archived by URL Original April 13, 2014) .
  5. ^ Goodman SM, B, Mc and Schoeman MC and Appleton B, Morphological, bioacoustical, and genetic variation in Miniopterus bats from eastern Madagascar, with the description of a new species ( PDF ), in Zootaha , vol. 2880, 2011, pp. 1–19.
  6. ^ Goodman SM, Maminirina CP, Bradman HM, Christidis L, Appleton BR, Patterns of morphological and genetic variation in the endemic Malagasy bat Miniopterus gleni (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae), with the description of a new species, M. griffithsi , in Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research , vol. 48, n. 1, 2010, pp. 75–86.
  7. ^ Goodman SM, Bradman HM, Maminirina CP, Ryan KE, Christidis LL and Appleton B, A new species of Miniopterus (Chiroptera: Miniopteridiae) from lowland southeastern Madagascar , in Mammalian Biology , vol. 73, 2008, pp. 199-213.
  • Novak RM, Walker’s Mammals of the World, 6th edition , Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999, ISBN 9780801857898.

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