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Cynopterus brachyotis Lesser

Creators

  • 1. Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State 500007, India & Systematics, Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Zoo Outreach Organization, 96, Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore 641035, India & Corresponding author: E-mail: chelmalasrinivasulu @ gmail. com
  • 2. Biodiversity Research and Conservation Society, 303 Nestcon Orchid, Kanajiguda, Tirumalgiri, Secunderabad, Telangana State 500015, India
  • 3. Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State 500007, India & Systematics, Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Zoo Outreach Organization, 96, Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore 641035, India
  • 4. Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State 500007, India
  • 5. Harrison Institute, Bowerwood House, 15 St Botolph's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN 13 3 AQ, United Kingdom
  • 6. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E 1 4 NS, United Kingdom
  • 7. School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, University of Bristol, Bristol BS 8 1 TQ, United Kingdom

Description

2. Cynopterus brachyotis (Müller, 1838) Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat

New records

North Andaman Islands: Diglipur and Ramnagar; Middle Andaman Islands: Devpur and Nayadera; South Andaman Islands: Dignabad.

Previous records

North Andaman Islands: Chalis Ek (HZM); South Andaman Islands: Mount Harriet (ZSIK).

Comments

Cynopterus brachysoma Dobson, 1871, was earlier synonymised under C. sphinx by Bates and Harrison, (1997). However, following Hill (1967), Simmons (2005) and Srinivasulu and Srinivasulu (2012) we consider this taxon as a subspecies of C. brachyotis. Cynopterus brachysoma was described based on an adult female collected by F. Stoliczka on South Andaman Island in 1871 and was later reported from the Andaman Islands by Dobson (1873, 1876) and Anderson (1881). Twenty individuals were captured of which five were collected. Aul et al. (2014) reported the sightings of this species from nine locations in the Andaman Islands. On two occasions we collected both C. sphinx and C. brachyotis at the same time. A detailed study is currently being undertaken to compare this species with C. sphinx on the islands.

We feel that this genus, presently represented on the islands by C. sphinx and C. brachyotis, to be more diverse than is currently known. During the present study, we observed numerous variations among the voucher specimens of this genus, and preliminary analysis of the cytochrome oxydase I (COI) gene and morphological studies on these specimens suggest that the taxonomy of Andamanese Cynopterus must be further resolved.

Notes

Published as part of Srinivasulu, Chelmala, Srinivasulu, Aditya, Srinivasulu, Bhargavi, Gopi, Asad, Dar, Tauseef Hamid, Bates, Paul J. J., Rossiter, Stephen J. & Jones, Gareth, 2017, Recent surveys of bats from the Andaman Islands, India: diversity, distribution, and echolocation characteristics, pp. 419-437 in Acta Chiropterologica 19 (2) on pages 426-427, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2017.19.2.018, http://zenodo.org/record/3942489

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Biodiversity

Family
Pteropodidae
Genus
Cynopterus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Lesser
Species
brachyotis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cynopterus brachyotis (Muller, 1838) sec. Srinivasulu, Srinivasulu, Srinivasulu, Gopi, Dar, Bates, Rossiter & Jones, 2017

References

  • DOBSON, G. E. 1871. Description of four new species of Malayan bats from the collection of Dr. Stoliczka. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 40: 260 - 267.
  • HILL, J. E. 1967. The bats of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 64: 1 - 9.
  • SIMMONS, N. B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 312 - 529, in Mammal species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference, 3 rd edition (D. E. WILSON and D. M. REEDER, eds.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, xxxv + 2142 pp.
  • SRINIVASULU, C., and B. SRINIVASULU. 2012. South Asian mammals: their diversity, distribution and status. Springer, New York, xii + 467 pp.
  • DOBSON, G. E. 1873. On the Pteropidae of India and its islands, with descriptions of new or little known species. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 42: 194 - 205.
  • DOBSON, G. E. 1876. Monograph of the Asiatic Chiroptera and catalogue of the species of bats in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Taylor and Francis, London, 251 pp.
  • ANDERSON, J. 1881. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Part 1. Primates, Prosimiae, Chiroptera and Insectivora. Order of the Trustees of Indian Museum, Calcutta, 375 pp.
  • AUL, B., P. J. J. BATES, D. L. HARRISON, and G. MARIMUTHU. 2014. Diversity, distribution and status of bats on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Oryx, 48: 204 - 212.