Wilson's long-fingered bat (Miniopterus wilsoni) is a cryptic bat of the family Miniopteridae that the Mammal Diversity Database records from Malawi and Mozambique, in the Afrotropical realm. It was described in 2020 by Ara Monadjem, Piotr Naskrecki and colleagues in a study of cryptic diversity in the genus Miniopterus with a new species from southern Africa, and its type locality is Mount Gorongosa in Gorongosa National Park, Sofala Province, Mozambique, at 920 metres. Its IUCN Red List status is recorded as Not Evaluated.
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Source Wilson's long-fingered bat (Mammal Diversity Database)
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Source Wilson's long-fingered bat (Mammal Diversity Database)Species page, Country distributionQuote, Species page, Country distribution
Malawi · Mozambique
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Wilson's long-fingered bat (Mammal Diversity Database)Species page, Country distributionQuote, Species page, Country distribution
Malawi · Mozambique
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1. Wikipedia: Miniopterus
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They are small flying insectivorous mammals
2. Wilson's long-fingered bat (Mammal Diversity Database)
Species page, IUCN Red List status
IUCN Red List status Not Evaluated
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Species status Living
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Malawi · Mozambique
In Group: Bats (Chiroptera), Species page, Taxonomy: Order
Order: Chiroptera
Child Taxon Of: Miniopteridae, Species page, Taxonomy: Family
Family: Miniopteridae
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