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--> SUBGENUS Rousettus
SPECIES Rousettus (Rousettus) leschenaultii
| Author: | Desmarest, 1820. | | Citation: | Mammalogie, in Encyclop. Méthod., 1: 110. | | Common Name: | Leschenault's Rousette | | Type Locality: | India, Pondicherry. | | Distribution: | Sri Lanka; Pakistan to Vietnam and S China; Peninsular Malaysia; Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Mentawai Isls (Indonesia). | | Status: | IUCN/SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Rousettus. Includes seminudus; see Sinha (1970). See Peterson et al. (1995) for a discussion of shortridgei. Kock et al. (2000b) treated shortridgei as a distinct species without comment. Reviewed in part by Bates and Harrison (1997) and Kock et al. (2000b). This name is sometimes spelled leschenaulti (e.g., Koopman, 1993, 1994), but I prefer the original spelling. |
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