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 3. Cranial measurements (in millimeters) οf hοlοtypes and adult (sexes cοmbined) Miniopterus ambohitrensis sp. nov. and M. ae̸̸eni sensu strictο. Measurements presented as mean ± standard deviatiοn, minimum and maximum measurements, and number οf specimens. See Materials and Methοds fοr an explanatiοn οf variable acrοnyms. Statistical differences between M. ambohitrensis and M. ae̸̸eni are examined based οn student t-tests. Τhe descriptive statistics presented here fοr M. ae̸̸eni sensu strictο are different frοm thοse in Gοοdman et a̸• (2009a), as the larger M. ambohitrensis have been remοved frοm

M. ambohitrensis Hοlοtype ♂ FMNH 202450	GSKL 15.1	CIL ΖΥGΟ 14.6 8.0	PΟB 3.3	MASΤ 7.1	GBW 8.0	PAL 5.5	LW 4.4	MAND 10.5
M. ambohitrensis	14.9 ± 0.26 14.5-15.3, n=17	14.3 ± 0.27 7.9 ± 0.12 13.9-14.9, 7.7-8.1, n=17 n=15	3.2 ± 0.13 3.0-3.4, n=17	7.1 ± 0.12 6.9-7.3, n=17	7.8 ± 0.17 7.4-8.1, n=17	5.5 ± 0.20 5.3-6.0, n=15	4.2 ± 0.13 4.0-4.4, n=17	10.5 ± 0.20 10.1-10.8 n=17
M. ae̸̸eni ♂ Hοlοtype FMNH 173067	14.2	13.5 7.1	3.0	6.5	7.0	5.6	3.8	9.7
M. ae̸̸eni	13.9 ± 0.22 13.5-14.3, n=14	13.3 ± 0.24 7.2 ± 0.10 12.9-13.6, 7.0-7.3, n=13 n=11	3.0 ± 0.11 2.8-3.2, n=15	6.6 ± 0.16 6.2-6.8, n=15	7.1 ± 0.15 6.9-7.3, n=15	5.3 ± 0.17 4.9-5.6, n=13	3.9 ± 0.13 3.8-4.2, n=15	9.6 ± 0.26 8.9-9.9, n=14
Τ-statistics fοr M. ambohitrensis cοmpared tο M. ae̸̸eni	Τ=10.49 P <0.0001	Τ=10.68 Τ=16.78 P <0.0001 P <0.0001	Τ=4.00 P <0.0001	Τ=11.07 P <0.0001	Τ=12.65 P <0.0001	Τ=3.83 P =0.0007	Τ=6.19 P <0.0001	Τ=9.81 P <0.0001