| Pied Bat | |
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| Information | |
| Common Name | Badger Bat |
| Range | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana and South Sudan. |
| Scientific Classification | |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Mammalia |
| Order | Chiroptera |
| Family | Vespertilionidae |
| Genus | Niumbaha |
| Species | Niumbaha superba |
| Conservation Status | |
 Least Concern | |
The Pied bat or badger bat (Niumbaha superba), is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is the only species in the genus Niumbaha.
Taxonomy[]
First discovered in 1939 in Belgian Congo, the species was, at that time, placed in the genus Glauconycteris under the name Glauconycteris superba. Following a 2013 capture in South Sudan, only the fifth recorded capture of the species, the pied bat was determined to be of a new genus entirely, Niumbaha, named after the Zande word for "rare".
Geographic Range[]
It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana and South Sudan.
Habitat[]
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Conservation Status[]
It is threatened by habitat loss.