Bats of the Sangkulirang limestone karst formations, East Kalimantan - a priority region for Bornean bat conservation
Author
Suyanto, Agustinus
Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Widyasatwaloka Building, Jl. Raya Bogor Km 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
Author
Struebig, Matthew J.
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London, E 1 4 NS, United Kingdom & Corresponding author: E-mail: m. struebig @ qmul. ac. uk
m.struebig@qmul.ac.uk
text
Acta Chiropterologica
2007
2007-04-01
9
1
67
95
journal article
21493
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1733-5329
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Hipposideros cineraceus
Blyth 1853
Ashy roundleaf bat
New material
4♂♂
(MZB
M26355
/
26744
/
26745
/
26772
);
2♀♀
(
MZB
M26346
/
26354
).
Records from Borneo
Sabah
: Baturong, Danum Valley, Gu- nung Kinabalu, Madai, Maruda Bay, Sega- rong, Upper Sungai Kuamut (
Payne
et al
., 2000
). WestKal: Betung Kerihun NP (Hariuchi, 1999); Gunung Palung NP (Bhu- del, 1996); CenKal: Barito Ulu Research Area (D. Pio, unpublished data); East: Long Midang (Yasuma and Andau, 2000); Sungai Lesan PF (M. J. Struebig, unpub- lished data).
Comments
Several individuals were captured in the forest understorey at the Tabalar, Baai and Marang formations. This species was also captured in harp-traps set at cave entrances of
Gua
Ambulabung at Baai and
Gua
Sungai at Marang, but only a few individuals were captured suggesting that colony sizes were small. Specimens fol- low descriptions in Hill (1963) based on skull morphology, and noseleaf appearance which has an internarial septum slightly expanded in the middle, but, like
H. ater
it is probable that several taxa with- in this current species exist over its range (see the section for
H. ater
). There are few records of this cave-roosting species in Borneo with only
Sabah
and the coastal wetlands between the Katingan and Kahayan rivers in
Central Kalimantan
included in the SAMD distribution maps. This study extends the known range in Borneo southwards by over
350 km
, and together with other
Kalimantan
records suggests that this species is more widely dis- tributed than the published literature suggests.