Cynopterus horsfieldii Gray, 1843

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 : 8

Cynopterus horsfieldii Gray, 1843

Cynopterus horsfieldii Gray, 1843: 38 ; Java, INDONESIA (Collector unknown; Type unknown) [ 70].

Common English name: Horsfield’s Fruit Bat

Barcode Index Number: BOLD: AAD 1477 (3 DNA barcodes from Peninsular Malaysia; Fig 2 )

IUCN status: Least Concern

Recorded at: Pahang: Krau Wildlife Reserve [ 11, 41], Merapoh [ 40], Tasik Chini [ 43], Kuala Atok National Park [ 44], Cameron Highland, [ 60, 64], Cherating [ 64]; Pulau Pinang: Pulau Pinang [ 23], Fraser Hill Forest Reserve [ 56]; Selangor: Bukit Lanjan [ 40], Bangi Forest Reserve [ 41], Bukit Kutu Wildlife Reserve [ 51],Ulu Gombak [ 52 – 54]; Perak: Bayor River-Rantau Panjang and Selama [ 49], Taiping [ 64], Temenggor Lake [ 69], Temengor Forest Reserve [ 71]; Perlis: Wang Kelian State Park [ 50], Perlis State Park [ 64]; Johor: Endau Kluang Forest Reserve [ 56]; Kedah: Ulu Muda Forest Reserve [ 57]; Kelantan: Gua Musang [ 61, 64], Gunung Reng [ 62], Gunung Stong State Park [ 67]; Terengganu: Tasik Kenyir [ 69].

C. horsfieldii has a wide range of habitats (e.g. lowland, hill, and montane forests, mangroves, orchards and plantations) [ 11] and has been reported roosting gregariously in caves, cavities in limestone caves and rock shelters [ 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