Epomophorus gambianus Ogilby 1835
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Epomophorus gambianus Ogilby 1835
Epomophorus gambianus Ogilby 1835, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835: 100.
Type Locality: Gambia, Banjul (restricted by Kock et al., 2002).
Vernacular Names: Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bat.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Epomophorus gambianus subsp. gambianus Ogilby 1835
Subspecies Epomophorus gambianus subsp. pousarguesi Trouessart 1904
Distribution: Senegal and Gambia to Central African Republic, east to Sudan, Ethiopia, S to Malawi and Botswana.
Conservation: IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: gambianus species group. Does not include crypturus and angolensis; see Claessen and De Vree (1990). See Boulay and Robbins (1989), but note that they included crypturus and angolensis in gambianus.
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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/36DB97E97A82A89AF3A0D9C2A7DD9114 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231543560 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ogilby
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Pteropodidae
- Genus
- Epomophorus
- Species
- gambianus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Epomophorus gambianus Ogilby, 1835 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Ogilby, W. 1835. Descriptions of Mammalia and birds from the Gambia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1835: 97 - 105.
- Kock, D., L. Barnett, J. Fahr, and C. Emms. 2002. On a collection of bats from Gambia (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Acta Chiropterologica, 4 (1): 77 - 97.
- Claessen, C. J., and F. De Vree. 1990. Systematic and distributional notes on the larger species of the genus Epomophorus Bennett, 1836 (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Pp. 177 - 186, in Vertebrates in the tropics. Proceedings of the international symposium on vertebrate biogeography and systematics in the tropics, June 5 - 9, 1989 (G. Peters and R. Hutterer, eds.). Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Insititute and Zoological Museum, Bonn, 424 pp.
- Boulay, M. C., and C. B. Robbins. 1989. Epomophorus gambianus. Mammalian Species, 344: 1 - 5.