Re-sighting record of Kelaart’s Pipistrelle Pipistrellus ceylonicus (Kelaart, 1852) (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Rajasthan, India

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.8411.15.7.23507-23513
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Bat, occurrence, population, rediscovery, Sawai Madhopur

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Dharmendra Khandal
Tiger Watch, Maa Farm, Ranthambhore Road, Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan 322001, India.
Dau Lal Bohra
P.G. Department of Zoology, Seth G.B. Podar College, Nawalgarh, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan 333042, India.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7293-6949
Shyamkant S. Talmale
Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Vidyanagar, Sector-29, Ravet Road, PCNT Post, Pune, Maharashtra 411044, India.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7363-6227

Abstract

Despite numerous studies and surveys targeting Chiroptera in Rajasthan since 1955, Pipistrellus ceylonicus has not been observed in the state for more than a century since 1913. Based on an adult male specimen recovered from Kusthala village in Sawai Madhopur district of Rajasthan, we report the occurrence of this species from the state after more than a century. 

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Vol. 15 No. 7 (2023)
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