taxonID	type	description	language	source
ED1A65354541FFC9FF56FB95084CFE12.taxon	description	Our preserved specimen had a fulvous brown back and lighter belly. The lancet had a well defined tip. In side view, the superior connecting process of the sella is bluntly rounded off and the base of the sella characteristically projects slightly forward and downwards while the base does not project downward in in allied congener R. rouxii (Thomas, 2000). The mental grooves are three in numbers. The third metacarpal is shortest and the fourth and the fifth are sub equal. Since the skull was partially damaged, completed set of craniodental measurements could not be acquired. However, based on the obtainable mensural data (Table 1) which corresponds well with published data and characteristics shape of the lancet (Thomas, 2000; Csorba et al., 2003), our specimen was assigned to R. sinicus. This species was earlier recognized as a subspecies of R. rouxii i. e. R. r. sinicus. However, based on differences in a number of external, internal and molecular characters, it was elevated to full species rank (Thomas, 2000). Two subspecies are currently recognized of which R. s. sinicus has been reported from Himalayas and South East Asia (Csorba et al., 2003).	en	Saikia, Uttam, Ngaomei, Gaikhuanlung, Meetei, A. B. (2020): Some noteworthy bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) records from Manipur State, Northeastern India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (1): 41-48, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v120/i1/2020/140764
ED1A65354541FFCAFCABFE0F08A4FF29.taxon	description	The live colouration of the individual was not noted. However, the dried fur appears to have a drab chestnut brown hue dorsally and a little paler venter. The upper surface of the interfemoral membrane is covered with hairs. The horseshoe had a breadth of 12 mm and had one mental groove, a characteristic for the pearsonii group. R. yunanensis and R. pearsonii are very similar morphologically but cranial dimensions are larger in the former (Csorba et al., 2003). Although our specimen has slightly smaller forearm length (54 mm) than the average for R. yunanensis (56.6 mm) (Bates and Harrison, 1997), the cranial dimensions (Table 1) are well beyond R. pearsonii and in conformity with that of R. yunanensis specimens from the Indian Subcontinent (Bates & Harrison, 1997). The baculum of the Manipur specimen is 2.94 m in length while its width at the base is 1.03 mm. It is similar to that of R. pearsonii in dorsal and ventral profile (vide Topal, 1975) and specialized. However, there are marked differences between the two when viewed laterally (Plate 2). The basal cone is large with a protruding basal knob however it is not as strongly projecting and as high as in pearsonii. The shaft is dorsoventrally flattened and blade like. Wu et al. (2009) revisited specimens of R. yunanensis and R. pearsonii from Thailand and China. While maintaining the species identity of R. pearsonii and yunanensis, they described a new species R. thailandensis within this group from Thailand and maintained that R. yunanensis is distributed in the Sichuan and Yunan provinces of China. However, they did not include specimens from India and Myanmar from where this species is reported. Pending further investigations, following Csorba et al. (2003) we provisionally retain this species from northeastern India.	en	Saikia, Uttam, Ngaomei, Gaikhuanlung, Meetei, A. B. (2020): Some noteworthy bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) records from Manipur State, Northeastern India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (1): 41-48, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v120/i1/2020/140764
ED1A65354542FFCAFCB5FEF709CBFC39.taxon	description	An adult female specimen (V / M / ERS / 502) was collected apparently inside a cow shed during day time at Toubul village (24.760550 N, 93.789160 E, 760 m) in Bishnupur district of Manipur on the 10 th May, 2018. The village is situated on the bank of Loktak Lake and surrounded by farmlands on three sides. The live specimen had a distinctive light golden brown dorsal fur and ventral pelage was a little paler. The wing membrane was black except for the orange metacarpels and the adjacent skin. Ears and muzzle and interfemoral membrane were also orange coloured (Plate 1). Because of the unique colour pattern, this bat was easily identifiable and hence the cranium was not extracted. In South East Asia, this lesser known species was recorded in dry deciduous forests and found among dried leaves of banana, dry grass, flowers, and weaver bird nests and in sugar cane fields (Hutson et al., 2008). Since the Manipur specimen was caught inside a shed without much natural vegetation around, this species also likely inhabit in anthropogenic landscape.	en	Saikia, Uttam, Ngaomei, Gaikhuanlung, Meetei, A. B. (2020): Some noteworthy bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) records from Manipur State, Northeastern India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (1): 41-48, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v120/i1/2020/140764
ED1A65354542FFCBFCB5FA2B0D0EFDCA.taxon	description	When blow dried, the preserved specimen appeared dark brown dorsally. Ventral pelage was also dark but with some light brown tips. The upper lip had some whiskers. Feet small and the wings were attached to the base of the toes. The wings and the interfemoral membranes were dark brown. The braincase appeared flat compared to similar sizes species like M. mystacinus and M. siligorensis and the canine exceeds the length of third upper premolar (Plate 5).	en	Saikia, Uttam, Ngaomei, Gaikhuanlung, Meetei, A. B. (2020): Some noteworthy bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) records from Manipur State, Northeastern India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (1): 41-48, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v120/i1/2020/140764
ED1A65354543FFCBFF56FDD70D21FAFE.taxon	description	42.7 mm. Although externally very similar to congener M. fuliginosus, the mensural parameters of M. magnater exceed the former. Our Manipur specimen had a CCL and CM 3 of 16.05 and 6.87 mm (Table 3) respectively which exceeds that of M. fuliginosus (CCL 14.1 and CM 3 6.1 mm) in Indian Subcontinent (As M. schreibersii in Bates & Harrison, 1997). The other craniodental measurements of this specimen also correspond well to the relevant measurements of specimens from Meghalaya (Table 2 & 3).	en	Saikia, Uttam, Ngaomei, Gaikhuanlung, Meetei, A. B. (2020): Some noteworthy bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) records from Manipur State, Northeastern India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (1): 41-48, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v120/i1/2020/140764
