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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CHIROPTERA
--> FAMILY Pteropodidae
--> GENUS Eidolon
SPECIES Eidolon helvum
| Author: | Kerr, 1792. | | Citation: | In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, 1(1): xvii, 91. | | Common Name: | African Straw-colored Fruit Bat | | Type Locality: | Senegal (restricted by K. Andersen, 1907). | | Distribution: | Mauritania, Senegal, and Gambia to Ethiopia to South Africa; SW Arabia and Oman; islands in the Gulf of Guinea and off E Africa. | | Status: | IUCN/SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Includes sabaeum, see Hayman and Hill (1971), Bergmans (1990), and Harrison and Bates (1991). Does not include dupreanum; see Bergmans (1990) and Peterson et al. (1995), but also see Hayman and Hill (1971). See DeFrees and Wilson (1988), but note that they included dupreanum in helvum. African forms reviewed in part by Juste et al. (2000); Palearctic forms reviewed by Horácek et al. (2000). Distribution mapped by Taylor (2000a) and Cotterill (2001e). The taxonomic status of populations in the Anr Mountains of Niger is unclear. |
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