Megaerops niphanae

Yenbutra & Felten, 1983

Ratanaworabhan's Tailless Fruit Bat

Female with young. Also as Northern Tailless Fruit Bat, Ratanaworabhan's Fruit Bat.
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Location:Laos, Attapeu Province, Xe Kaman river, 14°58'N 107°13'EDate taken:1 January 1996Description:Female with young. Also as Northern Tailless Fruit Bat, Ratanaworabhan's Fruit Bat.

Distribution :

NE India, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 1428

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

Yenbutra, S. and Felten, H. 1983-11-30. A new species of the fruit bat genus Megaerops from SE-Asia (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Senckenbergiana biologica 64(1-3):1-11.

Original name as described

Megaerops niphanae

Other common names

Northern Tailless Fruit Bat · Ratanaworabhan's Fruit Bat

Type material

TISTR 688

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Sakaerat Environmental Research Station, Amphoe Pak Thong Chai, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Bangladesh · Cambodia · India · Laos · Thailand · Vietnam · Bhutan? · Myanmar?

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004384

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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: 1 name and synonym.

Megaerops niphanae

Yenbutra & Felten, 1983

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

niphanae

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

TISTR 688

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

Sakaerat Environmental Research Station, Amphoe Pak Thong Chai, Prov. Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (14*30'N-101*56'E)

Type locality

Thailand: 14°30′N, 101°56′E.

Authority page

2

Authority publication

Senckenbergiana biologica

Name usages

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)
Bates & Harrison (1997:24) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27903)
Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #12947) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #12947) (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/1004384) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/12947/22024550) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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