Aethalops alecto

Habitat. Generally montane rainforests but also Lesser Sundas deciduous forests (Lombok Island) at elevations of 1000 - 2700 m.

Sumber: Pteropodidae

Movements, Home range and Social organization. The Common Pygmy Fruit Bat roosts alone or in small groups of 2 - 3 individuals, and it appears to move solitarily.

Sumber: Pteropodidae

Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red Lust.

Sumber: Pteropodidae

Descriptive notes. Head-body 63 - 75 mm (tailless), ear 9 - 15 mm, hindfoot 9 - 14 mm, forearm 43 - 48 mm; weight 17 - 22 - 5 g. Head of the Common Pygmy Fruit Bat has moderately elongated muzzle and is naked with blackish skin; nostrils are shortly tubular and divergent; philtrum is divided into two parallel grooves; and lower lip pads are triangular. Eyes are moderately large; iris is blackish brown. Ears are short, rounded, and black, and medial rim is slightly paler than pinna. Head pelage is short, soft, and dark grayish brown; nape and dorsum are densely haired, dark grayish brown, and woolly. Reduced uropatagium and tibia are thickly furred, and calcar is minute. Throat is thinly haired; sides of neck are glandular and inconspicuously yellowish brown; and chest and belly are mouse-gray. Wing membranes are black from sides of body and attach between first and second toes. Skull lacks basicranial deflection; rostrum is pointed, sloping to forehead; orbit is large; zygomatic root is only slightly above alveolar line; zygoma is very thin and arched posteriorly; and braincase is globose. Dorsally, rostrum is tapering; paranasal recesses are inflated; postorbital process is blunt; no postorbital foramina, almost no postorbital constriction; skull is rounded; and temporal lines and nuchal crest are inconspicuous. Ventrally, palate is flat and rather narrow; post-dental palate is long; palatine spine is inconspicuous and joined to sphenoidal crest; and ectotympanic is small and wide anteriorly, edged internally by ribbon-like entotympanic. Mandible is thin and straight; coronoid is long, low, and sloping; condyle is level with lower alveolar line; and angle is salient ventrally and slightly pointed posteriorly. I * is long and bent medially; I' is conspicuously shorter, thinner, and straight; C' is small, weak, and slightly decurved; P' is minute; next premolar (P?) is large and laterally triangular; and last cheekteeth decrease in height and have rectangular outlines. I, is very small and bifid with inner side longer; 1, is absent; C, is very small and low; P | is conspicuously pointed; next premolar (P,) is very large, triangular, and as high as C; and posterior cheekteeth are low and small.

Sumber: Pteropodidae

DISTRIBUTION: Malaya; Sumatra; Borneo; Java.

Sumber: Order Chiroptera

Recorded at: Perak: Maxwell Hill [23]; Pahang: Gunong Benom and Cameron Highlands [23]. A. alecto is not common and confined to hill and montane forests, normally above 1000 m [14, 23].

Sumber: A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library