Description of a new species of the Miniopterus aelleni group (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from upland areas of central and northern Madagascar Author Goodman, Steven M. Author Ramasindrazana, Beza Author Naughton, Kate M. Author Appleton, Belinda text Zootaxa 2015 3936 4 538 558 journal article 41787 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.4.4 dd1bdc0a-5e97-4e57-aef0-25d6bfd5fa1a 1175-5326 288178 26655EB2-0352-4D4F-BBD6-44F89D05DC41

TABLE 4. Dental measurements (in millimeters) of holotypes and adults (sexes combined) of Miniopterus ambohitrensis sp. nov. and M. aelleni sensu stricto. Measurements presented as mean ± standard deviation, minimum and maximum measurements, and number of specimens. See Materials and Methods for an explanation of variable acronyms. Statistical differences between M. ambohitrensis and M. aelleni are examined based on student t-tests. The descriptive statistics presented here for M. aelleni sensu stricto are different from those in Goodman et al. (2009a), as the larger M. ambohitrensis have been removed from M. aelleni sensu lato samples.

M. ambohitrensis Holotype ♂ FMNH 202450	I1-M3 6.8	C-M3 5.5	C1-C1 4.5	M3-M3 5.7
M. ambohitrensis	6.7 ± 0.12 6.5–6.9, n=17	5.5 ± 0.14 5.3–5.7, n=17	4.3 ± 0.13 4.0–4.5, n=17	5.6 ± 0.10 5.5–5.8, n=17
M. aelleni Holotype ♂ FMNH 173067	6.4	5.4	3.7	5.2
M. aelleni	6.3 ± 0.12 6.1–6.5, n=15	5.3 ± 0.12 5.0–5.4, n=15	3.7 ± 0.09 3.5–3.8, n=15	5.2 ± 0.09 5.1–5.4, n=15
T-statistics for M. ambohitrensis compared to M. aelleni	T=9.06 P <0.0001	T=5.71 P <0.0001	T=14.79 P <0.0001	T=11.74 P <0.0001