Megaerops ecaudatus (Temminck, 1837)

Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, PLoS ONE 12 (7), pp. 1-65 : 10-11

Megaerops ecaudatus [Temminck, 1837]

Pachysoma ecaudatum Temminck, 1837: 94 ; Padang , West Sumatra, INDONESIA (Collector unknown; Type unknown) [ 82].

Megaerops ecaudatus [ 82].

Common English name: SundaTailless Fruit Bat

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AAJ2914 (7 DNA barcodes from Peninsular Malaysia;

Fig 2 )

IUCN status: Least Concern

Recorded at: Pahang: Krau Wildlife Reserve [ 11, 42], Fraser Hill, Gunung Brinchang, and Cameron Highland [ 23], Tasik Chini [ 43]; Perak: Temengor Forest Reserve [ 46, 47], Bidor [ 76]; Perlis: Wang Kelian State Park [ 50]; Selangor: Bukit Kutu Wildlife Reserve [ 51], Lata Bujang Forest Reserve [ 56]; Johor: Endau-Kota Tinggi Forest Reserve [ 56]; Kedah: Ulu Muda Forest Reserve [ 57]; Kelantan: Gua Musang [ 62].

M. ecaudatus predominantly inhabits pristine forest but has been recorded in disturbed forests [ 11, 14, 23].

Figures

Fig 2. Neighbour-joining tree showing all available DNA barcodes for species in family Pteropodidae reported from Peninsular Malaysia. The percentage of pseudoreplicate trees (±70%) in which the DNA barcodes clustered together in the bootstrap test (500 pseudoreplicates) are shown above the branches. Abbreviation as follows: PM = Peninsular Malaysia, VN = Vietnam, JV = Java, Indonesia, BN = Borneo (including Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan), TH = Thailand, LA = Laos. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179555.g002