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Pipistrellus javanicus

  • 1. Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2. Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
  • 3. International College Beijing, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

Description

Pipistrellus javanicus [Gray, 1838]

Scotophilus javanicus Gray, 1838: 498; Java, INDONESIA (Collector unknown; Type unknown) [205].

Pipistrellus javanicus [8].

Common English name: Javan Pipistrelle

Barcode Index Number: DNA barcodes recorded as P. javanicus are associated with two BINs, BOLD: AAC 3383 and BOLD:AAL5777, but there are no DNA barcodes from Peninsular Malaysia.

IUCN status: Least Concern

Recorded at: Perak: Unspecified [23]; Pulau Pinang: Unspecified [23]; Pahang: Krau Wildlife Reserve [41], Gunung Benom, [140]; Selangor: Air Hitam Forest Reserve [55];

Kedah: Ulu Muda Forest Reserve [57].

P. javanicus has been recorded in wide variety of habitats including mangroves, lowland and hill forests, towns and rubber plantations, and found roosting in treeferns, fallen logs and caves [11, 14, 23].

Notes

Published as part of Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, pp. 1-65 in PLoS ONE 12 (7) on page 48, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179555, http://zenodo.org/record/4251352

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Biodiversity

Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Pipistrellus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Species
javanicus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pipistrellus javanicus (Gray, 1838) sec. Lim, Ramli, Bhassu & Wilson, 2017

References

  • 205. Gray JE. A revision of the genera of bats. Magazine of Zoology and Botany, Edinburgh and Dublin. 1838; 2: 483 - 505.
  • 8. Chasen FN. A handlist of Malaysian mammals (A systematic list of the mammals of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and Java, including the adjacent small islands). Bulletin of the Raffles Museum; 1940.
  • 23. Medway L. The wild mammals of Malaya. London: Oxford University Press. 1969.
  • 41. Zubaid A. A comparison of the bat fauna between a primary and fragmented secondary forest in Peninsular Malaysia. Mammalia. 1993; 57 (2): 201 - 206.
  • 140. Hill JE. The Gunong Benom Expedition 1967. 4. New records of Malayan bats, with taxonomic notes and the description of a new Pipistrellus. Bull Br Mus.: Zool. 1972; 23: 21 - 42.
  • 55. Azlan JM, Sharma RS, Zakaria M. Species diversity and relative abundance of understorey bats at Air Hitam forest reserve, Selangor, Malaysia. Mal Nat J. 2000; 54 (1): 69 - 75.
  • 57. Norsham Y, Shariff F, Norhayati A, Nordin M, Lim BL. Pre-logging survey of mammal fauna at Sungai Weng sub-catchment, Ulu Muda Forest Reserve Forest Reserve, Kedah. Journal of Wildlife and Parks. 1999; 17: 28 - 43.
  • 11. Kingston T, Lim BL, Akbar Z. Bats of Krau wildlife reserve. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; 2006.
  • 14. Francis CM. A field guide to the mammals of South-East Asia. New Holland Publishers; 2008.