Styloctenium mindorense

Esselstyn, 2007

Mindoro Stripe-faced Fruit Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera
Suborder: Yinpterochiroptera
Superfamily: Pteropodoidea
Family: Pteropodidae
Subfamily: Pteropodinae
Tribe: Pteropodini
Genus: Styloctenium

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Esselstyn, J.A. 2007-08-20. A new species of stripe-faced fruit bat (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Styloctenium) from the Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy 88(4):951-958.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1644/06-MAMM-A-294R.1

Original name as described

Styloctenium mindorensis

Type material

KU:M:164521

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/ku/kum?id=9749e6f4-1ed8-11e3-bfac-90b11c41863e

Type locality

"Mount Siburan, Barangay Batong Buhay, Sablayan Municipality, Occidental Mindoro Province, Mindoro Island, Philippines, at the edge of selectively logged lowland forest and an open field with a few guava trees (Psidium sp.), approximately 100 m above sea level (12°50.09'N, 120°55.81'E)."

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Philippines

Taxonomy notes

recently described; specific epithet is usually spelt 'mindorensis', but the name is an adjective and must match the generic gender, in which case the spelling is 'mindorense'

Taxonomy notes citation

Esselstyn, J.A. 2007. A new species of stripe-faced fruit bat (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Styloctenium) from the Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy 88(4):951-958. doi:10.1644/06-MAMM-A-294R.1

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004511

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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: 2 names and synonyms.

Styloctenium mindorensis

Esselstyn, 2007

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

mindorense

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

KU:M:164521

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

Mount Siburan, Barangay Batong Buhay, Sablayan Municipality, Occidental Mindoro Province, Mindoro Island, Philippines, at the edge of selectively logged lowland forest and an open field with a few guava trees (Psidium sp.), approximately 100 m above sea level (12*50.09'N, 120*55.81'E).

Type locality

Philippines: Mindoro: 12°50′5″N, 120°55′49″E.

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/ku/kum?id=9749e6f4-1ed8-11e3-bfac-90b11c41863e

Authority page

953

Authority publication

Journal of Mammalogy

Name usages

Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #136534) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #136534) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:133) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136534/21979633) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Styloctenium mindorense:

Mammal Diversity Database, 2024

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

mindorense

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

namecombination · unpublishedelectronic

Authority page URI

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004511

Name usages

Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004511) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)

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