Pteropus hypomelanus Temminck, 1853

Srinivasulu, Chelmala, Srinivasulu, Aditya, Srinivasulu, Bhargavi, Gopi, Asad, Dar, Tauseef Hamid, Bates, Paul J. J., Rossiter, Stephen J. & Jones, Gareth, 2017, Recent surveys of bats from the Andaman Islands, India: diversity, distribution, and echolocation characteristics, Acta Chiropterologica 19 (2), pp. 419-437 : 427

4. Pteropus hypomelanus Temminck, 1853

Variable Flying Fox

New records

Middle Andaman Islands: Baratang Island, Neil Island and Karmatang.

Previous records

North Andaman Islands: Narcondam Island and Barren Island ( Andersen, 1912; Aul et al., 2014).

Comments

Only four specimens were captured and collected. Aul et al. (2014) reported the sighting of this species from Barren Island. During the present study we sighted this species in South Andaman Islands at Ross Island and Port Blair, and in Middle Andaman Islands at Oralkatcha, Nayadera, Kadamthala, Rafter’s Creek, Badurnala, Mayabunder, Karmatang, Neil Island, and Interview Island. Pteropus hypomelanus geminorum , a widespread species in the Andaman Islands, with colonies observed at many locations, has been observed to travel considerable distance from colonies for feeding. Their colonies were located on tall trees in mangrove and gallery forests.