Epomophorus gambianus Ogilby 1835

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 313-350 : 322

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DOI

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scientific name

Epomophorus gambianus Ogilby 1835
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Epomophorus gambianus Ogilby 1835 View in CoL

Epomophorus gambianus Ogilby 1835 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835: 100.

Type Locality: Gambia, Banjul (restricted by Kock et al., 2002).

Vernacular Names: Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Epomophorus gambianus subsp. gambianus Ogilby 1835

Subspecies Epomophorus gambianus subsp. pousarguesi Trouessart 1904

Distribution: Senegal and Gambia to Central African Republic, east to Sudan, Ethiopia, S to Malawi and Botswana.

Conservation: IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: gambianus species group. Does not include crypturus and angolensis ; see Claessen and De Vree (1990). See Boulay and Robbins (1989), but note that they included crypturus and angolensis in gambianus .

Boulay, M. C., and C. B. Robbins. 1989. Epomophorus gambianus. Mammalian Species, 344: 1 - 5.

Claessen, C. J., and F. De Vree. 1990. Systematic and distributional notes on the larger species of the genus Epomophorus Bennett, 1836 (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Pp. 177 - 186, in Vertebrates in the tropics. Proceedings of the international symposium on vertebrate biogeography and systematics in the tropics, June 5 - 9, 1989 (G. Peters and R. Hutterer, eds.). Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Insititute and Zoological Museum, Bonn, 424 pp.

Kock, D., L. Barnett, J. Fahr, and C. Emms. 2002. On a collection of bats from Gambia (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Acta Chiropterologica, 4 (1): 77 - 97.

Ogilby, W. 1835. Descriptions of Mammalia and birds from the Gambia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1835: 97 - 105.

SSC

Sacramento State University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Pteropodidae

Genus

Epomophorus