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--> GENUS Miniopterus
SPECIES Miniopterus macrocneme
Author: | Revilliod, 1914. | Citation: | In Sarasin and Roux, Nova Caledonia, A. Zool., 1: 360. | Common Name: | Small Melanesian Long-fingered Bat | Type Locality: | New Caledonia and Loyalty Isls. | Distribution: | New Guinea to Vanuatu and New Caledonia. | Status: | IUCN 2003 – Not evaluated; not considered in IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001). | Comments: | Listed a subspecies of pusillus by Koopman (1993, 1994), but see Sanborn and Nicholson (1950), Flannery (1995a, b), and Bonaccorso (1998). In a recent revision of the pusillus/australis complex, Kitchener and Suyanto (2002) treated macrocneme as a subspecies of pusillus, but did not examine specimens of macrocneme sensu stricto. |
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