First record of Ratanaworabhans’s Fruit Bat Megaerops niphanae Yenbutra & Felten, 1983 (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) from Bangladesh

• Main Authors: Mohammad Nurul Islam, Amir Hossan Shaikat, Kazi Muhammad Fakhrul Islam, Subrata Kumar Shil, Sazeda Akter, Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, Mohammad Mahmudul Hassan, Ariful Islam, Shahneaz Ali Khan, Neil Furey
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society 2015-09-01
• Series: Journal of Threatened Taxa
• Subjects: Bangladesh; bats; new country record.
• Online Access: http://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/2327
• ISSN: 0974-7893; 0974-7907

<p>This note provides a morphological confirmation of the occurrence of Ratanaworabhans’s Fruit Bat<strong> </strong><em>Megaerops niphanae</em> in Bangladesh. Although previously recorded in neighbouring territories in India, this constitutes the first country record for the taxon and highlights the current incompleteness of faunal knowledge and potential for future discoveries in the country. Greater survey effort and sustained investments into developing taxonomic capacity and museum collections in Bangladesh are required to realize this potential however.</p><div> </div>