Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bat
Epomophorus wahlbergi (Sundevall, 1846)
Also calledEpomophore de Wahlberg (fra) · Morcego‑de‑dragonas‑de‑wahlberg (por) · Pagonowiec baobabowy (pol) · Pipistrello della frutta dalle spalline di Wahlberg (ita) · Wahlberg se Vrugtevlermuis (afr) · Wahlberg-Epaulettenflughund (deu) · Wahlbergs Epaulettenflughund (deu) · Wahlbergvleerhond (nld) · epolettihekko (fin) · kaloň Wahlbergův (ces) · Épomophore de Wahlberg (fra) · Крылан Вальберга (rus) · ワールベルクケンショウコウモリ (jpn)
First described in: Ofv. Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm vol.3 4 p.118
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
conservation
Conservation: IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
discussion
Discussion: wahlbergi species group. Revised by Bergmans (1988), and reviewed in part by Volpers and Kumirai (1996); also see Acharya (1992). For an updated distribution map see Taylor (2000 a). Some authors have recognized haldemani as a distinct subspecies, but this arrangement does not seem to be justified, see discussion in Bergmans (1988).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
distribution
Distribution: Cameroon to Sudan and Somalia, south to Malawi, Angola, and South Africa; Pemba and Zanzibar Isls. A Liberian record is probably erroneous (Koopman, 1993), and Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea records are of uncertain validity (Bergmans, 1988).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
materials_examined
Type Locality: South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Prov., near Durban.
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2432787.