Victor Van Cakenberghe

University of Antwerp | UA · Department of Biology

Aim: Comprehensive, global information on species' occurrences is an essential biodiversity variable and central to a range of applications in ecology, evolution, biogeography and conservation. Expert range maps often represent a species' only available distributional information and play an increasing role in conservation assessments and macroeco...

The purpose of the African Chiroptera Report is to collate published information on, and collate specimen records of, African bats. The advent of the internet provides an opportunity for large amounts of information to be easily and economically updated and accessible, which is particularly important for taxonomic information. The electronic, web-b...

The purpose of the African Chiroptera Report is to collate published information on, and collate specimen records of, African bats. The advent of the internet provides an opportunity for large amounts of information to be easily and economically updated and accessible, which is particularly important for taxonomic information. The electronic, web-b...

The purpose of the African Chiroptera Report is to collate published information on, and collate specimen records of, African bats. The advent of the internet provides an opportunity for large amounts of information to be easily and economically updated and accessible, which is particularly important for taxonomic information. The electronic, web-b...

The list below gives a taxonomical overview of the taxa covered in this report. The order in which these taxa are presented is alphabetically sorted on the hierarchical categories from high (order) to low (subspecies).

The purpose of the African Chiroptera Report is to collate published information on, and collate specimen records of, African bats. The advent of the internet provides an opportunity for large amounts of information to be easily and economically updated and accessible, which is particularly important for taxonomic information. The electronic, web-b...

Animals partition their daily activities based on a variety of internal and external factors. For insectivorous bats, the availability of prey, weather conditions, moonlight and reproductive energy demands are proposed as the major influencers of temporal activity. This study investigated the temporal variation in activity of the subtropical cave-d...

Clockwise from top, lateral, ventral and dorsal skull images of type specimens. The squares of the graph paper are 2 mm wide.

This 2017 issue provides an update to the current knowledge of African bats.

The list below gives a taxonomical overview of the taxa covered in this report. The order in which these taxa are presented is alphabetically sorted on the hierarchical categories from high (order) to low (subspecies).

ACR taxon-the taxon names as used in the current African Chiroptera Report. # ind.: the number of individuals used to record echolocation from, if indicated the number recorded in different contexts is shown, and what sex and age (j. = juvenile, a. = adult, f = female, m = male) the individuals where. # calls: the number of calls on which the analy...

In 1966, Robert William Hayman, Xavier Misonne and Walter Verheyen published their listing of the Congolese, Rwandan and Burundian bat specimens in the collections in the museums of Tervuren, Brussels, Geneva, London and New York. In the fifty years that have passed since, some major changes have been introduced in the taxonomy of the Chiroptera: n...

Although bats carry out important beneficial ecological and agricultural functions such as pollination and dispersion of seeds, they often carry dangerous diseases. This is worrying because of the increased dependency of the urban populations in Kisangani on bats as a source of animal proteins. The straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) is one o...

The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 2009a–b; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009;...

This plot is not part of the published stance but derives from it. The plot shows the number of authors by geographic region (courtesy of Dr. Diego Astua).

Casinycteris campomaanensis Hassanin, 2014 Campo-Ma'an Fruit Bat (Eng.) Casinyctère de Campo-Manan (Fr.) HASSANIN (2014) distinguished Casinycteris campomaanensis from the three other species within the tribe Scotonycterini by its body size, craniodental characteristics and molecular analysis. The molecular analyses based on the complete mitochondr...

The list below gives a taxonomical overview of the taxa covered in this report. The order in which these taxa are presented is alphabetically sorted on the hierarchical categories from high (order) to low (subspecies).

ACR taxon -the taxon names as used in the current African Chiroptera Report. # ind.: the number of individuals used to record echolocation from, if indicated the number recorded in different contexts is shown, and what sex and age (j. = juvenile, a. = adult, f = female, m = male) the individuals where. # calls: the number of calls on which the anal...