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Abo Butterfly Bat
Glauconycteris poensis
The Abo bat (Glauconycteris poensis) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It can be found in the following countries: Benin, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, possibly Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. It is found in these habitats: subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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Range & habitat
It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. It is currently evaluated as least concern by the IUCN—its lowest conservation priority.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Range and status”
In human culture
It was described as a new species in 1842 by British zoologist John Edward Gray. Gray placed the species into a new genus, Kerivoula, with the scientific name Kerivoula poensis. Its species name "poensis" means "belonging to Po." The holotype was collected on Fernando Pó, likely inspiring the species name.
Wikipedia: “Taxonomy and etymology”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 74381.