Clansthal Conservancy - Lists (Terrestrial, Aerial & Marine)

We are in the process of compiling lists of in and around the Clansthal Conservancy. Should you wish to participate we are looking at the following categrories:

. Terrestrial Mammals . Marine Mammals & Turtles . List

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Marine Mammals & Turtles

Name Common name (Eng / Afrik) Notes

WHALES Balaenoptera brydei Bryde's whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata Dwarf Minke whale Megaptera novaeangliane Humpback whale Eubalaena australis Southern Right whale DOLPHINS Tursiops aduncus Indian Ocean Bottlenose dolphin Delphinus capensis Long-Beaked Common dolphin TURTLES Chelonia mydas Green Unlikely Visitor Eretmochelys imbricata Hawksbill Dermochelys coriacea Leatherback Caretta caretta Loggerhead

Bats likely to occur in Clansthal Compiled list - April 2009

Name Common Name Status

Family: PTEROPODIDAE - PTEROPODIFORMES CHIROPTERA Epomophorus wahlbergi Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat Probable Epomophorus gambianus (incl. E.crypturus) Gambian epauletted fruit bat Probable Rousettus aegyptiacus Egyptian Rousette (Egyptian fruit bat) Possible Family: RHINOLOPHIDAE - PTEROPODIFORMES CHIROPTERA Rhinolophus clivosus Geoffroy's horseshoe bat Possible Rhinolophus darlingi Darling's horseshoe bat Possible Rhinolophus simulator Bushveld horseshoe bat Possible Rhinolophus swinnyi Swinny's horseshoe bat Possible Family: HIPPOSIDERIDAE -PTEROPODIFORMES CHIROPTERA Hipposideros caffer Sundevall's roundleaf bat (Sundevall's leaf-nosed bat) Possible Family: EMBALLONURIDAE - VESPERTILIONIFORMES CHIROPTERA Taphozous mauritianus Mauritian tomb bat Probable Family: MOLOSSIDAE - VESPERTILIONIFORMES CHIROPTERA Otomops martiensseni Large-eared free-tailed bat Probable Mormopterus acetabulosus Natal free-tailed bat Possible Chaerephon pumilus (Tadarida pumila) Little free-tailed bat Probable Tadarida aegyptiaca Egyptian free-tailed bat Probable Family: - VESPERTILIONIFORMES CHIROPTERA Seasonal in Miniopterus inflatus Greater long-fingered bat migratory transit Seasonal in Miniopterus fraterculus Lesser long-fingered bat migratory transit Seasonal in Miniopterus natalensis (M. schreibersii) Natal clinging bat (Schreibers' long-fingered bat) migratory transit anchietae ( anchietai) Anchieta's pipistrelle Probable Pipistrellus hesperidus (Pipistrellus kuhli) African pipistrelle (Kuhl's pipistrelle) Probable capensis ( capensis) bat Probable Neoromicia nanus (Pipistrellus africanus, Banana bat Probable P.nanus) Seasonal in Myotis tricolor Temminck's hairy bat migratory transit Myotis bocagei Rufous mouse-eared bat (Rufous hairy bat) Possible variegata (C. variegatus) Butterfly bat Possible dinganii African yellow bat (Yellow house bat) Probable Scotophilus viridis (S. borbonicus) Greenish yellow bat (Lesser yellow house bat) Probable Scotophilus leucogaster White-bellied yellow bat Possible albofuscus Light-winged lesser house bat (Thomas' house bat) Possible Family: NYCTERIDAE - VESPERTILIONIFORMES CHIROPTERA Nycteris thebaica Egyptian slit-faced bat Probable