White-bellied free-tailed bat

The white-bellied free-tailed bat (Mops niveiventer) is a bat in the family Molossidae of central and southern Africa. Wikipedia lists it from Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, while the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, citing a mammal checklist, also gives Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Mozambique, and notes that older records from Botswana and Madagascar were mistakes for other free-tailed bats. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and moist savanna. The type locality is Luluabourg, now Kananga, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It belongs to the subgenus Mops and is clearly distinct from Mops condylurus, though some authors have suggested it could be a subspecies of Mops demonstrator. It is assessed globally as Least Concern.