Emballonura alecto (Eydoux and Gervais 1836)

FAISAL ALI ANWARALI KHAN, VICKI J. SWIER, SERGIO SOLARI, PETER A. LARSEN, BESAR KETOL, WAHAP MARNI, SIVANATHAN ELLAGUPILLAY, MAKLARIN LAKIM, MOHAMMAD TAJUDDIN ABDULLAH & ROBERT J. BAKER, 2008, USING GENETICS AND MORPHOLOGY TO EXAMINE SPECIES DIVERSITY OF OLD WORLD BATS: REPORT OF A RECENT COLLECTION FROM MALAYSIA, Occasional Papers of the Museum 281, pp. 1-30 : 18

Emballonura alecto (Eydoux and Gervais 1836)

Small Asian Sheath-tailed Bat (Kelawar Teng-Teng Ceteng Kecil)

Specimens examined (4).—Kubah NP: TTU 108335 (GenBank EU521625 ), TTU 108336, TTU 108337; Mt. Penrisen: TTU 108405.

Type locality.— Philippines, Luzon , Manila .

Malaysian distribution.— This species is known from three localities (Sabah: Poring , and Tawau Hill ; Sarawak: Bako NP). Our specimen from Mt. Penrisen is a new geographic record.

Remarks.— Emballonura alecto was caught using hand nets in a culvert at Kubah NP and with a harp trap near the forest edge at Mt. Penrisen. Specimens are uniformly dark brown to black with long grayish fur. There is morphological overlap between E. alecto and E. monticola , however a short gap between the first and second upper premolars is present in E. alecto and absent in E. monticola (Corbet and Hill 1992) . There is less than 1% genetic divergence within our E. alecto samples from Borneo. Comparison of our E. alecto cyt- b gene sequences from Borneo to E. monticola from Thailand ( EF584233 ) resulted in a genetic distance of 9.2%. Specimen TTU 108405 (19 August 2006) was post lactating.