Nyctimene cephalotes

DISTRIBUTION: Sulawesi; Timor; Molucca Isis., Numfoor Isl., Umboi Isl. (off N. coast New Guinea).

Sumber: Order Chiroptera

Habitat. Primarily primary tropical moist forest from sea level up to an elevation of at least 1800 m.

Sumber: Pteropodidae

Movements, Home range and Social organization. Pallas’s Tube-nosed Fruit Bats roost alone.

Sumber: Pteropodidae

Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Pallas’s Tube-nosed Fruit Bat has a relatively wide distribution but is dependent on primary forests. Deforestation seems to be its greatest threat, and it might have disappeared from Timor already due to the near complete loss of primary moist forest on the island. This species is occasionally hunted in some regions and sold as food in markets.

Sumber: Pteropodidae

Descriptive notes. Head-body 87 - 4 - 100 - 6 mm, tail 17 - 8 - 25 - 4 mm, ear 12: 7 - 18 mm, hindfoot 13: 7 - 18 mm, forearm 62 - 2 - 69 - 6 mm; weight 40 - 49 g. Head of Pallas’s Tube-nosed Fruit Bat is broad, with deep face, broad, bluntly pointed ears, and tubular divergent nostrils. Eyes are large, with amberirises. Pelage is thick and woolly. Dorsal pelage is mottled gray and brown (hairs with dark brown bases, pale gray brown middles, and medium brown tips), with distinctive thin dark blackish brown mid-dorsal stripe (3 - 5 - 5 mm thick) stretching from shoulders to rump. Ventral pelage is pale grayish brown, with some yellowish patches. Females generally have paler dorsum than males. There is yellow spotting on forearms, wings, and ears (ears sometimes not spotted); wings are dark brown, with greenish wash. Second digit of wing has a claw, and wing attaches at second digit of foot. Tail is short, black, and wrinkled, and narrow uropatagium connects at base and stretches to calcar at ankles. Claws are brown. Skull and mandible are robust; rostrum is short; incisive foramen to posterior palatal length is shorter relative to postorbital breadth compared with the Common Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. albiventer); condylo-basal length is generally longer relative to both rostrum height, interorbital breadth, and cranial height compared with Keast’s Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (N. keasti); lambdoidal and sagittal crests are moderately developed; and margin of posterior palate is a broad U-shape and extends well beyond M'. Single lower incisor is completely deciduous, falling out before adulthood; lower molars are broad and rounded in dorsal view; C, replaces incisors and is long and powerful; and P, is elongated and longer than P, andP,.

Sumber: Pteropodidae

Conservation: IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).

Sumber: Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae