Otomops martiensseni – Large-eared Giant Mastiff Bat

Recommended citation: Richards LR, Schoeman C, Taylor PJ, White W, Cohen L, Jacobs DS, MacEwan K, Sethusa T, Monadjem A. 2016. A conservation assessment of Otomops martiensseni. In Child MF, Roxburgh L, Do Linh San E, Raimondo D, Davies-Mostert HT, editors. The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. South African National Biodiversity Institute and Endangered Wildlife Trust, South Africa. Merlin Tuttle populations across locations of southern, western and eastern Africa (Lamb et al. 2006, 2008; Richards et al. 2012; Ralph et al. 2015). In light of a newly described northeastern species, O. harrisoni, the distribution of O. martiensseni in sub-Saharan Africa has been revised to exclude the Arabian Peninsula, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya (Ralph et al. 2015). Although previously included within O. martiensseni (Simmons 2005), populations from Madagascar are now considered a distinct species (O. madagascariensis) following genetic and morphometric studies (Dorst 1953; Lamb et al. 2008; Richards et al. 2012; Ralph et al. 2015).