Mops (bat)

Pug ( scientific name) is a bat species from the family of bulldog bats ( Molossidae ). It is not to be confused with the genus barbastelle ( Barbastella ) from the family of Myotis bats ( Vespertilionidae ).

Features

These bats achieve hull head lengths from 5 to 12 inches, including another 3 to 6 inches long tail comes. Your weight varies 7-64 grams. Their fur is dyed at the top usually dark brown, the color may vary from reddish brown to black but. The underside is lighter and has sometimes whitish fur drawings. The massive skull is characterized by conspicuously fringed lips and powerful jaws.

Dissemination and lifestyle

The bats of the genus Pug have a two-tier distribution area. They come on the one hand in front of sub-Saharan Africa including Madagascar and the south of the Arabian Peninsula and the other in Southeast Asia. They inhabit different habitats depending on the type, including forests and savannah.

During the day they rest in colonies of tens to several hundred individuals, as resting places serve them caves, crevices and cavities in trees, but also man-made dwellings. After sunset they go in search of food, where they fly fast and often high in the air. They feed on insects, the powerful jaws indicate hard-shelled prey such as beetles.

Many species have two mating seasons per year, which are mostly from the change of season -dependent. Of a kind Pug condylurus, it is known that the gestation period is around two months and a single young is discharged.

Threat

Many types are widely and frequently. From Pug niangarae only a single copy was found in 1907, their level of vulnerability is unclear. Two species, M. peter soni and M. trevori, are listed by the IUCN as endangered ( vulnerable ).

The types

We distinguish 15 species of the genus Pug:

  • Pug brachypterus is from Gambia and Kenya to the south spread to Mozambique.
  • Pug condylurus inhabited almost all of Africa south of the Sahara.
  • Pug congicus comes from Ghana to Uganda before.
  • Pug demonstrator is distributed from Burkina Faso and Sudan to Uganda.
  • Pug leucostigma is endemic to Madagascar.
  • Mops midas lives in southwestern Saudi Arabia as well as in savanna areas of Africa.
  • Pug pug inhabits the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.
  • Pug nanulus is distributed from Sierra Leone to Ethiopia and Kenya.
  • Pug niangarae occurs only in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. From the way only a single copy is known, their level of vulnerability is unclear.
  • Pug niveiventer lives in southern Africa from the Democratic Republic of Congo southward to Botswana.
  • Pug peter soni is known from Ghana and Cameroon.
  • Pug sarasinorum lives in Sulawesi and Mindanao.
  • Pug spurrelli is spread from Liberia to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • Pug thersites comes from Sierra Leone to Rwanda and south to Mozambique possibly before.
  • Pug trevori lives in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
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