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COMMON NAME. — Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bat; EWE:
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MATERIAL EXAMINED. —
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Only
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of this savanna species was captured at a thicket edge in Kalakpa Resource Reserve, a mostly savannacovered legally-protected area in the south of the Volta Region, southeast of the Abutia Hills.
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). In the Volta Region
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was previously recorded from Bator, Ho, Keta, Kete Krachi (= Kradji), and Odomi Jongo,
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CONSERVATION STATUS. —
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<emphasis id="B92AEA95FF94FFBFFBE74E81FAE0F82E" box="[1069,1296,1923,1947]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="266">Epomophorus gambianus</emphasis>
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is listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List. Although rare during our survey, the high abundance of this fruit bat in surveys that included savanna areas make it a species of less concern.
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