Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 313 350 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Epomophorus wahlbergi Sundevall 1846 Epomophorus wahlbergi Sundevall 1846 , Ofv. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, Vol. 3, 4: 118 . Type Locality: South Africa , KwaZulu-Natal Prov. , near Durban. Vernacular Names: Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bat . Synonyms: Epomophorus haldemani Hallowell 1846 ; Epomophorus neumanni Matschie 1899 ; Epomophorus stuhlmanni Matschie 1899 ; Epomophorus unicolor Gray 1870 ; Epomophorus zenkeri Matschie 1899 . 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). Conservation: IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc). 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).