Chironax melanocephalus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Widyasatwaloka Building, Jl. Raya Bogor Km 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
- 2. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London, E 1 4 NS, United Kingdom & Corresponding author: E-mail: m. struebig @ qmul. ac. uk
Description
Chironax melanocephalus
(Temminck, 1825)
Black-capped fruit bat
New material
Not collected.
Records from Borneo
Brunei: Upper Sungai Temburong (Payne et al., 2000). Sabah: Danum Valley, Sepilok (Payne et al., 2000). Sarawak: Kubah NP (Abdullah et al., 1997). WestKal: Betung Kerihun NP (Hariuchi, 1999); CentKal: Barito Ulu Research Area (McConkey and Chivers, 2004); EastKal: Bukit Bang- kirai, Wanariset Samboja (MZB M22612/ 22630).
Comments
A single individual was captured in a harp-trap set across a rudimentary trail in disturbed forest at the Marang formation. C. melanocephalus is a small fruit bat, which, in Borneo, is known only from a few records in scattered forested localities (Boitani et al., 2006). Although no speci- men was collected, we distinguished this species by the presence of two pairs of lower incisors and distinct black fur on the head and neck as reported elsewhere in its range. Recent surveys have confirmed its presence in Sarawak and Kalimantan, so it is likely to be more widely distributed than
was previously thought, but rare, and con- fined to forest areas as reported by all recent surveys.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Pteropodidae
- Genus
- Chironax
- Species
- melanocephalus
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- PAYNE, J. B., C. M. FRANCIS, K. PHILLIPS, and KARTI- KASARI. 2000. Panduan lapangan mamalia di Ka- limantan, Sabah, Sarawak dan Brunei Darussalam [A field guide to the mammals of Kalimantan, Sa- bah, Sarawak and Brunei Darussalam]. Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program, The Sa- bah Society and WWF Malaysia, Jakarta, 386 pp.
- ABDULLAH, M. T., M. A. RAHMAN, and L. S. HALL. 1997. New records of bats in Sarawak, Malaysia. Malayan Nature Journal, 50: 365 - 367.
- BOITANI, L., G. CATULLO, I. MARZETTI, M. MASI, M. RULLI, and S. SAVINI. 2006. The Southeast Asian Mammal Databank. A tool for conservation and monitoring of mammal diversity in Southeast Asia. Istituto di Ecologia Applicata, Rome. http: // www. ieaitaly. org / samd / (last accessed 20 December 2006).