Epomops franqueti ( Tomes, 1860 )

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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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4783990
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scientific name	Epomops franqueti ( Tomes, 1860 )
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Epomops franqueti ( Tomes, 1860) View in CoL

Epomophorus franqueti Tomes, 1860: 54 View in CoL .

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

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Kalakpa Resouce Reserve • 1 ♀; SMF 89662). Agumatsa Valley • 2 ♀; SMF 89663, ZTNHC 959 .

REMARK

Although this is a mostly forest-dwelling fruit bat distributed from eastern Côte d’Ivoire into Central Africa ( Happold 2013a), our specimen from Kalakpa Resource Reserve shows that it can cope with forest remnants and gallery forest in more savanna-dominated areas. Epomops franqueti was previously known in the Volta Region from Amedzofe, Bator, Leklebi Agbesia, and Odomi Jongo ( Bergmans 1989).

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

References

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.

HAPPOLD M. 2013 a. - Epomops franqueti Franquet'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: 256 - 258.

TOMES R. F. 1860. - A monograph of the genus Epomophorus, with the description of a new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28: 42 - 58. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 12866542

Abbreviations

SMF	Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Chiroptera
Family	Pteropodidae
Genus	Epomops

Epomops franqueti ( Tomes, 1860 )

Decher, Jan, Norris, Ryan W., Abedi-Lartey, Michael, Oppong, James, Hutterer, Rainer, Weinbrenner, Martin, Koch, Martin, Podsiadlowski, Lars & Kilpatrick, C. William 2021

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