On the systematic position of the horseshoe bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Lesotho

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/24:N0000016 RIV/00216208:11310/24:10486807

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/mammalia-2023-0119/html" target="_blank" >https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/mammalia-2023-0119/html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2023-0119" target="_blank" >10.1515/mammalia-2023-0119</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

On the systematic position of the horseshoe bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Lesotho

Original language description

The monophyletic Afro-Palaearctic clade of the horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus) comprises several species groups whose representatives can be morphologically similar to each other across groups. The only Rhinolophus species that occurs in Lesotho was traditionally attributed to the broadly distributed African desert- and savanna-dwelling bat, Rhinolophus clivosus, a member of the ferrumequinum group. In this study, we investigated the horseshoe bats from Lesotho with the help of molecular genetic and morphometric analyses to find their position within the group and the clade as well. The genetic analysis resulted in phylogenetic trees with two different topologies, although in both trees the Lesotho bats were a part of the fumigatus group instead of the ferrumequinum group. In the mitochondrial tree, the Lesotho bats were mixed with Rhinolophus damarensis. On the contrary, the Lesotho bats formed a single distinct lineage on the nuclear tree, closely related to Rhinolophus darlingi, R. fumigatus, and R. damarensis (in a single lineage each). These results indicate introgressions of mtDNA from the Lesotho bats to R. damarensis. Morphologically, the Lesotho bats grouped distinctly from other species of the fumigatus and ferrumequinum groups. We thus consider the Lesotho horseshoe bats to be a new separate species that is here described.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000803" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000803: Advanced research supporting the forestry and wood-processing sector´s adaptation to global change and the 4th industrial revolution</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Mammalia

ISSN

0025-1461

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

88

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

239-258

UT code for WoS article

001188458900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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