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Seychelles Free-tailed Bat
Mops pusillus
Mops pusillus is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. It is found on islands off the coast of east Africa.
From the article Mops pusillus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The bat has a blackish-brown dorsum, brown throat, and dark brown chest. It has a dark brown venter, with a small white mid-ventral patch in rare cases. Comorian populations of the bat have a distinct whitish or beige strip of hairs at the base of the wings. There is a possibility of inter-island seasonal variation in reproduction.
Range & habitat
The bat is found in the Comoro Islands and Seychelles. On Comoros, it was not observed roosting in natural sites, but instead mostly in the attics of public buildings. Moreover, the bats were observed to roost in older-style colonial buildings, but not in modern buildings. Their roosting may also be seasonal, as they have been observed abandoning roosts during the cold season.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Habitat and distribution”
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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 1370873.