Rousettus amplexicaudatus

DISTRIBUTION: Kampuchea; Thailand; Malay Peninsula through Indonesia to New Guinea, Bismarck Arch., and Solomon Isis.; Philippines.

Sumber: Order Chiroptera

Habitat Two-hundred seventy-nine bats were caught using bat nets at 1 and 3 m above the ground in moss forest, submontana forest, lowland forest, casuarine forest, shrub and grassland in rainy and dry seasons.

Sumber: Morphological Variations and New Species Description of Genus Rousettus; Bat from Gunung Duasudara Sanctuary, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Description All bats were described directly in the sanctuary of Gunung Duasudara. R. amplexicaudatus specimen was compared with R. celebensis and R. tangkokoensis n. sp. (Fig. 1). Pelage The color of shoulder pelage was greyish brown to brown, chest to belly was slightly bright grey brown, neck was gery brown with yellow hair bundle on both neck sides, top of head was slightly dark grey brown. There was no dense hair up to around the thigh, the wing is hairy and no wing attached onto shoulder side. External Body R. amplexicaudatus bats possessed longer SV, FL, TIB and TAIL than R. celebensis and R. tangkokoensis n. sp.; meanwhile the FA, HF and EAR are bigger than those of R. celebensis but smaller than those of R. tangkokoensis n. sp. Skull R. amplexicaudatus had longer GSL, BL, LIW and POW than those in R. celebensis and R. tangkokoensis n. sp.; meanwhile the ZB, BCW, MSF, PL, CBL and CCL are bigger than those in R. tangkokoensis n. sp. but smaller than those in R. celebensis. Teeth and Dentary R. amplexicaudatus specimen had longer M 3 M 3, M 3 M 3 and RAP than R. celebensis and R. tangkokoensis n. sp.; the C 1 M 3, C 1 M 3, C 1 C 1, C 1 C 1 and DL are also bigger than those in R. tangkokoensis n. sp. but smaller than those in R. celebensis. Biological Condition Ninety-eight adult males possessed reproductive condition (63 unswollen testes, 9 slightly swollen testes and 26 swollen testes) and 126 adult females had reproductive condition (60 unswollen nipples, 16 slightly swollen, 23 swollen nipples without bite marks, 24 swollen nipples with bite marks and 3 pregnant).