Miniopterus newtoni
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| Miniopterus newtoni | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Miniopteridae |
| Genus: | Miniopterus |
| Species: | M. newtoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Miniopterus newtoni Bocage, 1889 | |
Miniopterus newtoni is a species of bat that is endemic to São Tomé and Príncipe.[1]
Miniopterus newtoni was described as a new species in 1889 by Portuguese zoologist José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage. The holotype had been collected by Portuguese naturalist Francisco Newton.[2] In the third edition of Mammal Species of the World, Simmons et al. considered M. newtoni as a subspecies of the least long-fingered bat, M. minor. However, in 2007, a mitochondrial DNA analysis rejected the assertion that M. minor and M. newtoni were synonymous. Juste et al. published that M. newtoni and M. minor had a genetic distance significant enough to regard each as separate species.[3]
Description
It has a forearm length of approximately 39 mm (1.5 in).[4]