Leigh R. Richards

Leigh R. Richards, South African chiropterologist.

• Durban Natural Science Museum, P O Box 4085, Durban, 4000, South Africa.

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• 6 taxon names authored by Leigh R. Richards

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• Monadjem, A., , Taylor, P.J. & Stoffberg, S. 2013. High diversity of pipistrelloid bats (Vespertilionidae: Hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus) in a West African rainforest with the description of a new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 167(1): 191–207. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00871.x Reference page. 

• Ralph, T.M.C., , Taylor, P.J., Napier, M.C. & Lamb, J.M. 2015. Revision of Afro-Malagasy Otomops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with the description of a new Afro-Arabian species. Zootaxa 4057(1): 1–49. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.1.1 Reference page. 

• Monadjem, A., , Decher, J., Hutterer, R., Mamba, M.L., Guyton, J., Naskrecki, P., Markotter, W., Wipfler, B., Kropff, A.S. & Dalton, D.L. [2020] 2021. A phylogeny for African Pipistrellus species with the description of a new species from West Africa (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191(2): 548–574. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa068 Reference page. 

• Taylor, P.J., Strydom, E., , Markotter, W., Toussaint, D.C., Kearney, T., Cotterill, F.P.D., Howard, A., Weier, S.M., Keith, M., Neef, G., Mamba, M.L., Magagula, S. & Monadjem, A. 2022. Integrative taxonomic analysis of new collections from the central Angolan highlands resolves the taxonomy of African pipistrelloid bats on a continental scale. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196(4): 1570–1590. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac071 Reference page. 

• Torrent, L., Juste, J., Garin, I., Aihartza, J., Dalton, D.L., Mamba, M.L., Tanshi, I., Powell, L.L., Padidar, S., García-Mudarra, J.L., & Monadjem, A. 2025. Taxonomic revision of African pipistrelle-like bats with a new species from the West Congolean rainforest. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(2). DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf020 Reference page.