Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Subfamily Vespertilioninae Phylum Chordata Order Bat | Subphylum Vertebrata Family Vespertilionidae Scientific name Niumbaha superba Rank Species | |
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Genus Niumbaha
Reeder, Helgen, Vodzak, Lunde & Ejotre, 2013 Similar Glauconycteris, Bat, Large‑eared pied bat, Chalinolobus, Variegated butterfly bat | ||
The pied bat (Niumbaha superba), or badger bat, is a rare species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is the only species in the genus Niumbaha.
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Taxonomy
First discovered in 1939 in Belgian Congo, the species was, at that time, placed in the genus Glauconycteris under the name Glauconycteris superba. Following a 2013 capture in South Sudan, only the fifth recorded capture of the species, the pied bat was determined to be of a new genus entirely, Niumbaha, named after the Zande word for "rare".
Geographic range
It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana and South Sudan.
Habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Conservation status
It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
Pied bat Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA