Eonycteris spelaea
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Description
Eonycteris spelaea (Dobson 1871)
[Macroglossus] spelaeus Dobson 1871, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal: 105.
Type Locality: Burma, Tenasserim, Moulmein, Farm Caves.
Vernacular Names: Lesser Dawn Bat.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Eonycteris spelaea subsp. spelaea Dobson 1871
Subspecies Eonycteris spelaea subsp. glandifera Lawrence 1939
Subspecies Eonycteris spelaea subsp. rosenbergii Jentink 1889
Subspecies Eonycteris spelaea subsp. winnyae Maharadatunkamsi and Kitchener 1997
Distribution: India, Burma, Nepal, S China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, W Malaysia, Borneo; Sula Isls, N Moluccas, Sumatra, Java, Sumba, Timor and Sulawesi (Indonesia); Philippines; Andaman Isls (India).
Conservation: IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Includes rosenbergii; see Bergmans and Rozendaal (1988). Reviewed in part by Hill (1983), Flannery (1995 b), Bates and Harrison (1997), Maharadatunkamsi and Kitchener (1997), and Maharadatunkamsi et al. (2003).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/B5FED4376783348DAB39F373EDACBE6B (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/6EB7C2815A81E8D5062E84045E01179C (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231543543 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Dobson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Pteropodidae
- Genus
- Eonycteris
- Species
- spelaea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eonycteris spelaea (Dobson, 1871) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Lawrence, B. 1939. Mammals. Pp. 28 - 73, in Collections from the Phillippine Islands (T. Barbour, B. Lawrence, and J. L. Peters). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 86 (2): 25 - 128.
- Maharadatunkamsi, and D. J. Kitchener. 1997. Morphological variation in Eonycteris spelaea (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) from the Greater and Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, and description of a new subspecies. Treubia, 31: 133 - 168.
- Bergmans, W., and F. G. Rozendaal. 1988. Notes on collections of fruit bats from Sulawesi and some off-lying Islands (Mammalia; Megachiroptera). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden), 248: 1 - 74.
- Hill, J. E. 1983. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Indo-Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 43: 103 - 208.
- Maharadatunkamsi, S. Hisheh, D. J. Kitchener, and L. H. Schmitt. 2003. Relationships between morphology, genetics and geography in the cave fruit bat Eonycteris spelaea (Dobson, 1871) from Indonesia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 79: 511 - 522.