First record of Ratanaworabhans’s Fruit Bat Megaerops niphanae Yenbutra & Felten, 1983 (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) from Bangladesh

Authors

  • Mohammad Nurul Islam Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh
  • Amir Hossan Shaikat Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh
  • Kazi Muhammad Fakhrul Islam Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh
  • Subrata Kumar Shil Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh
  • Sazeda Akter Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh
  • Mohammad Mizanur Rahman Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh
  • Mohammad Mahmudul Hassan Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh
  • Ariful Islam EcoHealth Alliance, 460 West 34th Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10001-2320, USA
  • Shahneaz Ali Khan Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh
  • Neil Furey Fauna & Flora International, Cambodia Programme, PO Box 1380, #19, Street 360, Boeng Keng Kong 1, Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh 12000, Cambodia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o4387.7821-4

Keywords:

Bangladesh, bats, new country record.

Abstract

This note provides a morphological confirmation of the occurrence of Ratanaworabhans’s Fruit Bat Megaerops niphanae in Bangladesh. Although previously recorded in neighbouring territories in India, this constitutes the first country record for the taxon and highlights the current incompleteness of faunal knowledge and potential for future discoveries in the country. Greater survey effort and sustained investments into developing taxonomic capacity and museum collections in Bangladesh are required to realize this potential however.

 

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Published

26-09-2015

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Vol. 7 No. 11 (2015)

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