The Nature LibraryEN·ES
GBIF·11144326speciesAnimalia0 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderChiroptera
  5. ›familyPteropodidae
  6. ›genusMegaerops
No openly licensed image yet. Many species are known only from a description and a specimen in a drawer.
IUCN NT · Near threatened

White-collared Fruit Bat

Megaerops albicollis Francis, 1989

Also calledCynopteére a col blanc (fra) · Weißkragen-Altwelt-Fruchtfledermaus (deu)

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

biology_ecology

Habitat. Primary lowland dipterocarp rainforests at elevations below c ¢. 110 m.

Pteropodidae

biology_ecology

Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.

Pteropodidae

breeding

Breeding. One pregnant White-collared Fruit Bat was reported in August in Peninsular Malaysia.

Pteropodidae

conservation

Status and Conservation. Not assessed on The IUCN Red List. The White-collared Fruit Bat was considered conspecific with the Mindanao Fruit Bat (Ptenochirus wetmorer), which was classified as Vulnerable. The White-collared Fruit Bat is certainly rare, with its distribution naturally fragmented in three disjoint populations (Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, and Sumatra).

Pteropodidae

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Megaerops albicollis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 11144326.