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Epomops buettikoferi ( Matschie, 1899 )

Decher, Jan, Norris, Ryan W., Abedi-Lartey, Michael, Oppong, James, Hutterer, Rainer, Weinbrenner, Martin, Koch, Martin, Podsiadlowski, Lars & Kilpatrick, C. William, 2021, A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation, Zoosystema 43 (14), pp. 253-281 : 266

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a14

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 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7008A933-FE5E-405E-BBAD-8C06D2A8807D

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4783992

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scientific name

 Epomops buettikoferi ( Matschie, 1899 )
status

 

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Epomophorus büttikoferi Matschie, 1899: 45 .

COMMON NAME. — Büttikofer’s Epauletted Fruit Bat; EWE: Aguto.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Apesokubi • 1 adult ♀ with a 53 mm long embryo; 27.VIII.2001; SMF 92116 .

REMARK

Essentially an Upper Guinea forest species with some disjunct populations east of the Dahomey Gap in Nigeria ( Bergmans 1989; Thomas & Henry 2013). All previous Ghanaian specimens were from the rainforest zone in SW Ghana west of the Volta River ( Bergmans 1989; Grubb et al. 1998). Thus, our specimen is the first record east of the Volta in Ghana.

CONSERVATION STATUS. — Epomops buettikoferi is listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List.

BERGMANS W. 1989. - Taxonomy and biogeography of African fruit bats (Mammalia, Megachiroptera). 2. The genera Micropterus Matschie, 1899, Epomops Gray, 1870, Hypsignathus H. Allen, 1861, Nanonycteris Matschie, 1899, and Plerotes Andersen, 1910. Beaufortia 39: 89 - 153.

GRUBB P., JONES T. S., DAVIES A. G., EDBERG E., STARIN E. D. & HILL J. E. 1998. - Mammals of Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia. The Trendrine Press, Zennor, St. Ives, Cornwall, vi + 265 p.

MATSCHIE P. 1899. - Die Megachiroptera des Berliner Museum fur Naturkunde. G. Reimer, Berlin. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 48691

THOMAS D. & HENRY M. 2013. - Epomops buettikoferi Buettikofer's Epauletted Fruit Bat in HAPPOLD M. & HAPPOLD D. C. D. (eds) The Mammals of Africa - Vol. IV: Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats. Bloomsbury Publishing, London: 253 - 255.

SMF

Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Pteropodidae

Genus

Epomops

Specimens