Nycteris tragata (K. Andersen, 1912)

Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, PLoS ONE 12 (7), pp. 1-65 : 16-17

Nycteris tragata [Andersen, 1912]

Petalia tragata Andersen, 1912: 546 ; Bidi Caves, Sarawak, Borneo, MALAYSIA (Cecil J. Brooks, Esq., presenter; BM(NH) 1903.3.31.1) [ 109].

Nycteris tragata [ 8].

Common English name: Malayan Slit-faced Bat

Barcode Index Number: BOLD: AAD 1297 (5 DNA barcodes from Peninsular Malaysia; Fig 3 )

Remarks: Two names for bats in the genus Nycteris , N. javanica and N. tragata , have been used in Peninsular Malaysia. All records of N. javanica in Peninsular Malaysia are from old reports dated before the year 2000 [ 23, 41, 42, 43, 45, 57]. N. tragata was considered a synonym of N. javanica by Medway [ 23]. The taxa were later considered to be distinct with N. javanica being confined to Java and some of the surrounding islands [ 110] whereas N. tragata occurs in Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo [ 11, 110]. In this checklist, we treat previous reports of N. javanica as reports of N. tragata and recognise only one species, N. tragata , occurring in Peninsular Malaysia.

IUCN status: Near Threatened

Recorded at: Pahang: Krau Wildlife Reserve [ 11], Kuala Atok, National Park [ 44], Lata Bujang Forest Reserve [ 56], Jengka [ 100]; Perlis: Wang Kelian State Park [ 50]; Johor: Endau- Kota Tinggi Forest Reserve [ 56]; Kelantan: Air Panas-Gua Musang [ 61]; Melaka: Unspecified [ 68]; Negeri Sembilan: Gunung Angsi Forest Reserve [ 100, 101]; Selangor: Semangkok Forest Reserve [ 101]; Perak: Temengor Forest Reserve [ 111]; Kedah: Bukit Hijau [ 100].

N. tragata is confined to mature primary forests and roosts in small groups in hollowed trees, caves, crevices of large boulders and man-made hollows such as culverts [ 11, 14].

Figures

Fig 3. Neighbour-joining tree showing all available DNA barcodes for species in families Emballonuridae, Megadermatidae, Molossidae and Nycteridae reported from Peninsular Malaysia. The percentage of pseudoreplicate trees (±70%) in which the DNA barcodes clustered together in the bootstrap test (500 pseudoreplicates) are shown above the branches. Abbreviation as follows: PM = Peninsular Malaysia, VN = Vietnam, BN = Borneo (including Sabah & Sarawak of East Malaysia, Brunei and Kalimantan Indonesia), TH = Thailand, LA = Laos, SM = Sumatera Indonesia,CH = China. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179555.g003