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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CHIROPTERA
--> FAMILY Pteropodidae
--> GENUS Micropteropus
SPECIES Micropteropus pusillus
| Author: | Peters, 1867. | | Actual Date: | 1868 | | Citation: | Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 870. | | Common Name: | Peters's Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat | | Type Locality: | Nigeria, Yoruba (see Bergmans [1989] and Kock et al. [2002]). | | Distribution: | Senegal and Gambia east to Ethiopia and Sudan; south to Angola, Zambia, Burundi, and Tanzania. | | Status: | IUCN/SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | See Owen-Ashley and Wilson (1998). For discussion of publication date, see Kock et al. (2002). |
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