Peterson's long-fingered bat (''Miniopterus petersoni'') is a bat in the genus ''

Miniopterus ''Miniopterus'', known as the bent-winged or long winged bats, is the sole genus of the family Miniopteridae. They are small flying insectivorous mammals, micro-bats of the order Chiroptera, with wings over twice the length of the body. The genus ...

'' which occurs in southeast

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. It was described by

Steven M. Goodman Steven Michael Goodman (born August 3, 1957) is an American conservation biologist, and field biologist on staff in the Department of Zoology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Life He graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy H ...

et al. in 2008. While ''M. petersoni'' is similar to '' M. sororculus'', the two species are not closely related to each other, and possess a number of differing external and

cranial Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans. The terms, typically derived from Latin or Greek roots, describe something in its standard anatomical position. This position prov ...

characteristics.

References

Miniopteridae Mammals described in 2008 Bats of Africa {{Bat-stub