Epomophorus gambianus (Ogilby, 1835)

Decher, Jan, Hoffmann, Anke, Schaer, Juliane, N Orris, Ryan W., Kadjo, Blaise, Astrin, Jonas, Monadjem, Ara & Hutterer, Rainer, 2015, Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid, Acta Chiropterologica 17 (2), pp. 255-282 : 261

Epomophorus gambianus (Ogilby, 1835)

One subadult (FA = 74 mm) female of this common West African fruit bat was caught at CMR on 19 December 2008. During the 2002 RAP one individual of this species was recorded from Banko on the west side of the Simandou Ridge (Fahr and Ebigbo, 2003, 2004). The species is not as abundant at Pic de Fon as expected based on its frequency in other parts of West Africa, and it is completely absent from Mount Nimba to the south. There are records from Conakry and the Parc National de Haute Niger, in Guinea ( Ziegler et al., 2002). In the Fouta Djallon region the species is known from only a few localities. This was attributed to “marginally suitable habitat” (Weber and Fahr, 2007 b:11). Epomophorus gambianus is a woodland and savannah species that is generally common in West Africa with a distribution reaching into the Central African Republic and a disjunct area in Ethiopia ( Happold, 2013 a).

Conservation status

Least Concern with an unknown population trend ( IUCN, 2015).