Megaerops ecaudatus (Temminck 1837)

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 : 9

Megaerops ecaudatus (Temminck 1837)

Temminck’s Tailless Fruit Bat (Cecadu Tiada Berekor)

Specimens examined (4).—Mt. Penrisen: TK 152245 (GenBank EU521604 ), TTU 108349, TTU 108412, TTU 108413.

Type locality.— Indonesia, West Sumatra, Padang .

Malaysian distribution.—Recorded from Peninsular Malaysia (all states) and Borneo.

Remarks.— Megaerops ecaudatus can be netted from lowland as well as mountain forests (Hodgkison 2004). The external morphology of this species is simlar to Cynopterus and Penthetor but with an absence of a tail in Megaerops . Other diagnostic characters include tubular nostrils and absence of white edged ears. Megaerops ecaudatus has low cyt- b genetic distance within our Borneo samples (<2%). Comparison of DNA sequences with others from GenBank showed high genetic distances (7% and 11%) between Peninsular Malaysian ( EF105533 ) and Bornean ( EF105536 ; Mount Murud) cyt- b sequences, suggesting the presence of two species.