Miniopterus magnater Sanborn 1931

Miniopterus magnater Sanborn 1931, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 18: 26.

Type Locality: Papua New Guinea, E Sepik, Marienberg.

Vernacular Names: Western Long-fingered Bat.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Miniopterus magnater subsp. magnater Sanborn 1931

Subspecies Miniopterus magnater subsp. macrodens Maeda 1982

Distribution: NE India, SE China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam to Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Timor (Indonesia), Borneo, Moluccas, and New Guinea including the Bismarck Arch.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Hill (1983) and Corbet and Hill (1992). May also include bismarckensis, here listed as a synonym of tristis following Koopman (1993); see discussion in Hill (1983). See also Flannery (1995 a) and Bonaccorso (1998). Some specimens from SE Asia previously identified as schrebersii may represent magnater; see Hendrichsen et al. (2001 b).