Abstract
Salim Ali’s Fruit Bat Latidens salimalii is an IUCN Red listed Endangered species known only from a few locations in southern India. Here we report three records of Latidens salimalii from the Valparai plateau and Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu where this species has not been previously recorded. This bat was caught in riparian habitats close to or inside intact tropical wet forest in the Western Ghats.
Highlights
Latidens salimalii is the only species in the genus Latidens, and is endemic to India (Bates ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) & Harrison 1997)
It is the only ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) fruit bat to be protected under Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife OPEN ACCESS (Protection) Act, amended in 2006, and is listed as Endangered by the IUCN (Molur & Vanitharani 2008)
It was first collected in the High Wavy Mountains in Tamil Nadu in 1948, and misclassified as the Greater Short-Nosed Fruit Bat Cynopterus sphinx, but was later recognised as a new genus and species by Kitti Thonglongya and named after Indian ornithologist Salim Ali in 1972 (Thonglongya 1972)
Summary
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