Taphozous melanopogon

Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on 77 ie IUCN Red List. The Black-bearded Tomb Bat has a large distribution and presumably large and stable overall population. Some populations occur in protected reserves. Because it will inhabit secondary forests and anthropogenic habitats, it appears to have locally stable or slightly decreasing populations. In South Asia, the Black-bearded Tomb Bat is regionally threatened by habitat loss from commercial logging and agriculture and disturbance to roost caves by humans. Local subsistence hunting of larger colonies in cave roosts occurs in Laos and the Philippines. Bibliography. Bates & Harrison (1997), Flannery (1995 b), Heaney eta /. (1998), Kitchener & Suyanto (1995), Kitchener, Schmitt (1993), Lawrence (1939), Molur eta /. (2002), Rickart eta /. (1993), Sanborn (1952), Smith & XieYan (2008), Taylor (1934), Waterhouse (1845).

Sumber: Emballonuridae

Descriptive notes. Head — body 67 — 86 mm, ear 21 — 23 mm, hindfoot 13 — 15 mm, tail 11 - 9 — 26 mm, forearm 60 — 68 mm; weight 21 — 26 g. Dorsum of the Black-bearded Tomb Bat ranges from very dark brown in younger individuals to paler cinnamon drab in mature males. Basal part of hairs is pale pinkish buff in mature adult males and white in juveniles and young adults. Venter is paler than dorsum. Females in India often have a more reddish hue and hairs of young individuals are brown, and mature adults are tawny olive. Throat beard of adult males is dense mat of black hairs up to 25 mm long across full width of throat. Proximal one-third of forearm is furred along inner dorsal surface and same color as dorsum. Ear is lightly furred along external margin. Wing membranes are predominately sepia. Uropatagium is lightly furred but becomes dense near tail. Tail is thickened at tip. Legs and feet are hairy. There are well-developed radio-metacarpal sacs in wings. Wing membrane attaches above ankle to tibia.

Sumber: Emballonuridae

Distribution Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Vietnam, S China, Malay Peninsula and adjacent Islands; Borneo; Sumatra, Java, Lombok, Sumbawa, Moyo, Alor, Timor, and Sulewesi (Indonesia), Philippines. Distribution in Lao PDR (Fig. 12): Louangphabang Province: Pak Hou (Ban Pak-Ou) (FMNH collection).

Sumber: A checklist of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Lao PDR