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Taphozous melanopogon Temminck 1841

  • 1. School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London, E 1 4 NS, United Kingdom E-mail: m. struebig @ qmul. ac. uk & Department of Zoology, University of Mandalay, Mandalay, Myanmar
  • 2. School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London, E 1 4 NS, United Kingdom
  • 3. Harrison Institute, Centre for Systematics and Biodiversity Research, Bowerwood House, St. Botolph's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN 13 3 AQ, United Kingdom
  • 4. Department of Geography, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
  • 5. Department of Zoology, University of Mandalay, Mandalay, Myanmar

Description

Taphozous melanopogon Temminck, 1841

Black-bearded tomb bat

New records

Mandalay Division: Maha Aungmye Bonzan; Kabani cave.

Previous records from Myanmar

Mandalay Division (Bates and Harrison, 1997; Bates et al., 2000), Yankin Hill (HZM/YU), Kho Nan Shin cave (HZM/ YU); Rakhine State (Pearch et al., 2003); Kayin State (Bates et al., 2000); Tanintharyi Division: Tagoot (Wroughton, 1915); Talin- tut cave (HZM/YU).

Comments

Forearm length for the twenty individu- als seen during the expedition ranged from 58.2–66.8 mm and body mass from 22.3–30.5 g.

Notes

Published as part of Struebig, Matthew J., Rossiter, Stephen J., Bates, Paul J. J., Kingston, Tigga, Oo, Sai Sein Lin, Nwe, Aye Aye, Aung, Moe Moe, Win, Sein Sein & Mya, Khin Mya, 2005, Results of a recent bat survey in Upper Myanmar including new records from the Kachin forests, pp. 147-163 in Acta Chiropterologica 7 (1) on pages 153-154, DOI: 10.3161/1733-5329(2005)7[147:ROARBS]2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/3942883

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References

  • TEMMINCK, C. J. 1835, 1840, 1841. Monographies de mammalogie, ou description de quelques gen- res de mammiferes, dont les especes sont obser- vees dans les differents musee de l'Europe. Tome 2. G. Dufour and E. D'Ocagne, Libraires, Paris, 392 pp.
  • BATES, P. J. J., and D. L. HARRISON. 1997. Bats of the Indian Subcontinent. Harrison Zoological Muse- um Publications. 258 pp.
  • BATES, P. J. J., TIN NWE, M. J. PEARCH, KHIN MAUNG SWE, SI SI HLA BU, and THANDA TUN. 2000. A review of bat research in Myanmar (Burma) and results of a recent survey. Acta Chiroptero- logica, 2: 53 - 82.
  • PEARCH, M. J., KHIN MIE MIE, P. J. J. BATES, TIN NWE, KHIN MAUNG SWE, and SI SI HLA BU. 2003. First record of bats (Chiroptera) from Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma). Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society, 51: 241 - 259.
  • WROUGHTON, R. C. 1915. Report No 17: South Ten- nasserim, Burma. Bombay Natural History So- ciety's Mammal Survey of India, Burma and Ceylon. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 23: 695 - 720.