Lowland rainforest bat communities of Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, including new regional records
Author
Patterson, Georgina
Author
Martin, Thomas Edward
Author
Adams, Nathan
Author
Cropper, Olivia
Author
Mustari, Abdul Haris
Author
Tosh, David G.
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2017
2017-08-04
65
373
385
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5356939
2345-7600
5356939
364FF720-BBDE-4C82-BF91-C24967A11AB6
Rhinolophus philippinensis
A widespread although sporadically-occurring species found in disjunctive populations between the Greater Sundas and
Philippines
to
Australia
. It is a rare species in our study area, being known from three mist-net records in LFR and BUR. The Buton population of
R. philippinensis
is comprised of three distinct size morphs, the evolutionary divergence of which has been the subject of previous research (
Kingston & Rossiter, 2004
). One of our captures belonged to the ‘large’ morph (with a forearm length of 58.0 mm and a weight of
12.5 g
), with another belonging to the ‘small’ morph (with a forearm length of
46.8 mm
and a weight of
6 g
). The final individual captured during fieldwork escaped before morphometric measurements could be taken, thus we could not determine which size morph it belonged to. The species is previously known to occur on Buton, being reported as occurring here by
Kingston & Rossiter (2004)
.