Miniopterus magnater Sanborn 1931

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 520

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scientific name	Miniopterus magnater Sanborn 1931
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Treatment

Miniopterus magnater Sanborn 1931 , Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 18: 26.

Type Locality: Papua New Guinea, E Sepik, Marienberg.

Vernacular Names: Western Long-fingered Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Miniopterus magnater subsp. magnater Sanborn 1931

Subspecies Miniopterus magnater subsp. macrodens Maeda 1982

Distribution: NE India, SE China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam to Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Timor ( Indonesia), Borneo, Moluccas, and New Guinea including the Bismarck Arch.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Hill (1983) and Corbet and Hill (1992). May also include bismarckensis, here listed as a synonym of tristis following Koopman (1993); see discussion in Hill (1983). See also Flannery (1995 a) and Bonaccorso (1998). Some specimens from SE Asia previously identified as schrebersii may represent magnater ; see Hendrichsen et al. (2001 b).