Research Article
Bats of the Safi-Essaouira Provinces (Morocco): New Inputs to the Knowledge of Bat Populations of the Atlantic Littoral
Table 3
Results of the bat investigations in the Safi-Essaouira littoral area (Morocco).
| Families/species | Sites | Haouya cave | Gora’an cave | Sidi Benkrara cave | Sbaa Fam cave | Maâden cave | Sidi Abderrahmane lake | Safi pinewood | Degraded argane forest | Souiria Laqdima dunes | Lalla Mellouka forest | Argane groves N Jbel Lahdid | Coastal sand dunes | Olive groves SW Jbel Lahdid | Mixed argane-pine forest |
| Rhinolophidae | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rhinolophus ferrumequinum | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | Rhinolophus hipposideros | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Rhinolophus mehelyi | 37 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | Rhinolophus blasii | 38 | 363 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Vespertilionidae | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Myotis punicus | 0 | 64 | 37 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pipistrellus pipistrellus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1104 | 0 | Pipistrellus kuhlii | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 552 | 45 | 27 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 274 | 16 | Eptesicus isabellinus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 22 | 43 | 2 | Miniopteridae | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Miniopterus schreibersii | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 416 | 0 | Molossidae | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tadarida teniotis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | Hipposideridae | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hipposideros tephrus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | Species richness | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 | Total number of individuals/passes | 93 | 509 | 60 | 5 | 0 | 562 | 57 | 36 | 36 | 21 | 18 | 30 | 1872 | 18 |
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