Epomophorus Bennett, 1836

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 141

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7289096
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scientific name	Epomophorus Bennett, 1836
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Epomophorus Bennett, 1836 View in CoL View at ENA . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835:149 [1836].

TYPE SPECIES: Pteropus gambianus Ogilby, 1835 View in CoL .

COMMENTS: Revised by Bergmans (1988), who transferred Micropteropus grandis to this genus. A key to this genus is presented in Boulay and Robbins (1989).

References

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

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

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Chiroptera
Family	Pteropodidae

Epomophorus Bennett, 1836

Karl F. Koopman 1993

1993

Epomophorus

Bennett 1836: 149

1836

Specimens