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--> 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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