Cynopterus, F. Cuvier, 1824

Patterson, Georgina, Martin, Thomas Edward, Adams, Nathan, Cropper, Olivia, Mustari, Abdul Haris & Tosh, David G., 2017, Lowland rainforest bat communities of Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, including new regional records, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65, pp. 373-385 : 379

Cynopterus c.f. titthaecheilus

An Indonesian endemic, this species appears to be rare in our study area. It is only known from two adult individuals captured in mist nets within BUR by GP (11 July 2014, 18 July 2014) (Plate 1). We tentatively identify this species as C. titthaecheilus due to our morphometric measurements of these captures being very similar to those reported from Bali ( Kitchener & Foley, 1985), and also because there are no other Cynopterus species known to occur in the Sulawesi region or its immediate surrounds that possess an equivalent size of our captures, which had an average weight of 71 g. However, without genetic analyses we cannot be completely confident of this species identification, and thus we identify it tentatively as Cynopterus c.f. titthaecheilus . If our records can be conclusively confirmed as being C. titthaecheilus , this would represent a major range extension for the species. The IUCN (2016) and Wilson & Reeder (2015) describe the species as occurring only in Java, Sumatra, Bali, Lombok and Timor, and no other literature sources consulted note the species as occurring anywhere within the Sulawesi region.