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Eonycteris spelaea

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).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae, pp. 313-350 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 321, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

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.