Dwarf free-tailed bat | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Molossidae |
Genus: | Mops |
Species: | M. nanulus |
Binomial name | |
Mops nanulus J.A. Allen, 1917 | |
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It was described as a new species in 1917 by American zoologist, Joel Asaph Allen. The holotype was collected in Niangara, Democratic Republic of the Congo by Herbert Lang and James Chapin. [2]
It has a forearm length of 27.3–28.7 mm (1.07–1.13 in). [2]
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