Cynopterus horsfieldii Gray 1843

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 : 7

Cynopterus horsfieldii Gray 1843

Horsfield’s Fruit Bat (Cecadu Pisang Besar )

Specimens examined (9).— Krau: TK 152002 (GenBank EU521599 ), TK 152003, TTU 108170, TTU 108212, TTU 108214, TTU 108215, TK 152058, TTU 108223, TTU 108224 .

Type locality.— Indonesia, Java .

Malaysian distribution.—Recorded from Peninsular Malaysia (all states) and Borneo from sea level to 1400 m.

Remarks.— This species was caught using mist nets at Krau across forest trails. In Borneo, C. horsfieldii was captured at high elevations (900 m) in primary forest ( Jayaraj et al. 2005; 2006). Forearm length (68- 76 mm) is a good character to separate this species from C. brachyotis in the field ( Payne et al. 1985). Unlike C. brachyotis , there is low cyt- b genetic distance (2%) observed within and between Peninsular Malaysian (samples from this study) and Bornean (samples from UNIMAS museum collections) individuals. Habitats where C. horsfieldii occurs in Borneo should be given high conservation priority, as this species is rare or at least not commonly reported when compared to Peninsular Malaysia samples. Two of four adult female specimens were pregnant: TK 152002 (3 August 2006) and TK 152058 (6 August 2006); and two were carrying young: TK 152003 (6 August 2006) and TTU 108223 (7 August 2006).