Sphaerias blanfordi

(O. Thomas, 1891)

Blanford's Fruit Bat

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Location:Thailand, Loei provinceDate taken:21 May 2006

Distribution :

N India, Bhutan, Burma, N Thailand, Vietnam, SW China.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 5419

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera
Suborder: Yinpterochiroptera
Superfamily: Pteropodoidea
Family: Pteropodidae
Subfamily: Cynopterinae
Tribe: Balionycterini
Genus: Sphaerias

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1891-06-25. Diagnoses of three new mammals collected by Signor L. Fea in the Carin Hills, Burma. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova 30:884.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30150395

Original name as described

Cynopterus blanfordi

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1890.4.7.6, MSNG (no number given)

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/e5073dd9-637f-49b4-a051-8a73637444dc

Type locality

"Leitò, Chebà, on the Carin [= Karin] Hills, 1000 m, " Burma (= Myanmar).

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Bhutan · China · India · Laos · Myanmar · Nepal · Thailand · Vietnam

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004371

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 4 names and synonyms.

Cynopterus blanfordi

O. Thomas, 1891

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

blanfordi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1890.4.7.6, MSNG (no number given)

Type kind

syntypes

Original type locality

Carin Hills, Burma

Type locality

Myanmar.

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/e5073dd9-637f-49b4-a051-8a73637444dc

Authority page

884

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30150395

Authority publication

Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova

Name usages

Trouessart (1897:86, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40404766) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59283)
Trouessart (1904:63, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422892) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)

Sphærias blanfordi:

G. S. Miller, 1906

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

blanfordi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

83

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2348065

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Name usages

Miller (1906:83, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2348065) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15504)
Ellerman & Morrison-Scott (1951:100, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8722401) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/31900)
Corbet & Hill (1980:41) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:127) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Corbet & Hill (1991:46) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Koopman (1993:153) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
Koopman (1994:34) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
Bates & Harrison (1997:27) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27903)
Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
Smith & Xie (2008:334) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #20521) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #20521) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:72) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
Kumar, Sharma & Khan (2022:7) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66220)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004371) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/20521/22100101) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)
Saikia, Chakravarty, Csorba, Laskar & Ruedi (2025:14) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69679)

Sphaerias blanfordi motuoensis

Cai Guiquan & Zhang Naizhi, 1980

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

motuoensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

NPIB 77079

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

Beibeng, Motuo region, Xizang

Type locality

China: Tibet.

Authority page

443, 446

Authority publication

Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
Smith & Xie (2008:334) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)

Sphaerias blanfordi medogensis:

Wang Yingxiang, 2003

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

medogensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

29

Authority publication

Beijing

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