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Epomophorus gambianus Ogilby 1835

Description

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.

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 322, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

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.