Megaerops ecaudatus

(Temminck, 1837)

Temminck's Tailless Fruit Bat

Close-up, hanging. Also as Sunda Tailless Fruit Bat, Temminck's Fruit Bat.
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Location:Malaysia, Sabah, SepilokDate taken:1 January 1986Description:Close-up, hanging. Also as Sunda Tailless Fruit Bat, Temminck's Fruit Bat.

Distribution :

Borneo, Sumatra, W Malaysia, Thailand, perhaps Vietnam

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 1427

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Temminck, C.J. 1837. Livraison 2. Pp. 49–140 in Temminck, C.J. 1835-1841. Monographies de Mammalogie. Tome second. C. C. van der Hoek, Leiden, 392 pp.

Authority publication link

https://archive.org/details/monographiedema00temmgoog

Original name as described

Pachysoma ecaudatum

Other common names

Sunda Tailless Fruit Bat · Temminck's Fruit Bat

Type material

RMNH.MAM.38025

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.38025.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.38025.b

Type locality

Padang, western Sumatra, Indonesia.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Brunei · Indonesia · Malaysia · Thailand · India?

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004382

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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: 7 names and synonyms.

Pachysoma ecaudatum

Temminck, 1837

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

ecaudatus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

RMNH.MAM.38025

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

district de Padang dans l'île de Sumatra

Type locality

Indonesia: Sumatra: 0°55′29″S, 100°21′48″E.

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.38025.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.38025.b

Authority page

94

Authority publication

Leiden

Megera ecaudata:

Lesson, 1842

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

ecaudatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

15

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Lesson (1842:15) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)

Pteropus ecaudatus:

A. Murray, 1866

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

ecaudatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

345

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580341

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Murray (1866:345, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580341) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)

Megæra ecaudata:

J. E. Gray, 1871

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

ecaudatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

124

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9994641

Authority publication

British Museum Catalogue

Name usages

Gray (1871:124, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9994641) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/21655)

Cynopterus ecaudatus:

Trouessart, 1897

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

ecaudatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

86

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40404766

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

Trouessart (1897:86, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40404766) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59283)
Seabra (1898:170, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3416558) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68459)

Ptenochirus ecaudatus:

Trouessart, 1904

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

ecaudatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

63

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422892

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

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

Megærops ecaudatus:

Chasen, 1940

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

ecaudatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

27

Authority publication

Bulletin of Raffles Museum

Name usages

Chasen (1940:27) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5889)
Ellerman & Morrison-Scott (1951:99, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8722400) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/31900)
Hill (1961:636) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16221)
Davis (1962:34) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16694)
Medway (1965:48) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34580)
Corbet & Hill (1980:41) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:117) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Corbet & Hill (1991:46) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Koopman (1993:142) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
Koopman (1994:34) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
Kofron (2002:267) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/2188)
Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #12946) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #12946) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:63) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
Almeida, Simmons & Giannini (2020:18, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60549666) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/49061)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004382) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/12946/22023972) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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