|
HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CHIROPTERA
--> FAMILY Pteropodidae
--> GENUS Epomophorus
SPECIES Epomophorus wahlbergi
| Author: | Sundevall, 1846. | | Citation: | Ofv. Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, 3(4): 118. | | Common Name: | Wahlberg’s Epauletted Fruit Bat | | Type Locality: | South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Prov., near Durban. | | Distribution: | Cameroon to Sudan and Somalia, south to Malawi, Angola, and South Africa; Pemba and Zanzibar Isls. A Liberian record is probably erroneous (Koopman, 1993), and Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea records are of uncertain validity (Bergmans, 1988). | | Status: | IUCN/SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | wahlbergi species group. Revised by Bergmans (1988), and reviewed in part by Volpers and Kumirai (1996); also see Acharya (1992). For an updated distribution map see Taylor (2000a). Some authors have recognized haldemani as a distinct subspecies, but this arrangement does not seem to be justified, see discussion in Bergmans (1988). |
|
| Offspring: | Synonyms:
haldemani Hallowell, 1846
neumanni Matschie, 1899
stuhlmanni Matschie, 1899
unicolor Gray, 1870
zenkeri Matschie, 1899
|
|
|
