Gallagher's free-tailed bat [SEP] parent taxon
Gallagher's free-tailed bat
Gallagher's free-tailed bat ("Chaerephon gallagheri") is a free-tailed bat endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Only one individual has ever been documented.
Taxonomy and etymology.
It was described as a new species in 1975 by David Harrison.
The eponym for the species name ""gallagheri"" was Major Michael D. Gallagher, who collected the holotype.
Its distinct morphology has called into question whether it represents its own genus of bat
revised diagnosis in 2014, which separated this subgenus and "Setirostris", also with a sole species ("Mormopterus eleryi"), from the diversity discovered in Australian molossids. This revision assigned the taxon to a subgenus, giving the combination "Mormopterus" ("Micronomus") "norfolkensis", before the elevation to a monotypic arrangement as genus "Micronomus".
The species is also referred to as the east-coast free-tailed bat, east-coast freetail bat, and eastern coastal free-tailed