African long-fingered bat

The African long-fingered bat (Miniopterus africanus) is a bat of the family Miniopteridae, described by Colin Campbell Sanborn in 1936 from Sanford's Ranch at Mulo, northwest of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, at about 2438 metres. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it as a living species of the Afrotropical realm that is also listed in Mammal Species of the World of 2005, and gives a range that covers Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, with Tanzania queried. Its IUCN Red List status is recorded as Not Evaluated. The database also gives the alternative common name African bent-winged bat and notes that the genus was moved from the family Vespertilionidae into Miniopteridae.