Occurrence records of 266 bat species from 53 genera and 12 families (order Chiroptera, class Mammalia) from sub-Saharan Africa.
afribats_sfA tibble with 17255 rows and 12 variables:
a character denoting family of bat record
a character denoting genus of bat record
a character denoting species of bat record
a character denoting museum accession number of bat record
a date denoting date on which the bat was collected or otherwise recorded
an integer denoting body mass (grams)
a character denoting country in which the bat was recorded
a character denoting name of the location or locality that the bat was recorded
a character denoting source of the record, mostly papers
a character denoting whether the record is a type specimen
a character denoting whether the bat specimen was examined by the authors
the geometry list column, crs is EPSG:4326
Originally published in: Monadjem, A., Montauban, C., Webala, P.W. et al. African bat database: curated data of occurrences, distributions and conservation metrics for sub-Saharan bats. Sci Data 11, 1309 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04170-71