Blanford's fruit bat
Blanford's fruit bat (Sphaerias blanfordi) is a mountain species of megabat. The only recording of it was from the Doi Suthep-Pui National Park in Chiengmai, Thailand. According to Lekagul and McNeely (1977), the species is confined to the Thai-Burmese border, Uttar Pradesh in India and eastern Nepal.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Pteropodidae |
| Genus: | Sphaerias Miller, 1906 |
| Species: | S. blanfordi |
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| Sphaerias blanfordi (Thomas, 1891) | |
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Taxonomy
Blanford's fruit bat was described as a new species in 1891 by English zoologist Oldfield Thomas, who put it in the genus Cynopterus (C. blanfordi).[2] The eponym for its specific epithet "blanfordi" is English naturalist William Thomas Blanford.[3]
References
- Bates, P.; Bumrungsri, S.; Csorba, G.; Francis, C. (2008). "Sphaerias blanfordi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T20521A9210732. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T20521A9210732.en.
- Thomas, O. (1891). "Diagnoses of three new Mammals collected by Signor L. Fea in the Carin Hills, Burma". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova: 884.
- Srinivasulu, C (2019). South Asian mammals: an updated checklist and their scientific names. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-429-88089-6. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
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