Eonycterisspelaea (Dobson, 1871)

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 : 9-10

Eonycterisspelaea [Dobson, 1871]

Macroglossus spelaeus Dobson, 1871: 105 , 106; Farm Caves , Moulmein, Tenasserim, MYANMAR (Collector unknown; Type unknown) [ 77].

Eonycterisspelaea [ 78].

Common English name: Cave Nectar Bat

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AAB6385 (1 DNA barcode from Peninsular Malaysia;

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IUCN status: Least Concern

Recorded at: Pahang: Krau Wildlife Reserve [ 11, 41], Pulau Tioman [ 23, 79], Tasik Chini [ 43]; Selangor: Batu Caves [ 23], Bukit Kutu Wildlife Reserve [ 51], Ulu Gombak [ 52 – 54];

Perak: Temengor Forest Reserve [ 46, 47], Bayor River-Rantau Panjang and Selama [ 49];

Kedah: Ulu Muda Forest Reserve [ 57]; Kelantan: Air Panas-Gua Musang [ 61], Gunung Reng, Gua Musang and Lojing Highlands [ 62], Gunung Stong State Park [ 67]; Melaka [ 68].

E. spelaea is a cave dweller and roosts in large colonies with thousands of individuals [ 11, 14, 23].

Figures

Fig 2. Neighbour-joining tree showing all available DNA barcodes for species in family Pteropodidae 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, JV = Java, Indonesia, BN = Borneo (including Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan), TH = Thailand, LA = Laos. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179555.g002