Casinycteris ophiodon

(Pohle, 1943)

Pohle's Fruit Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Pteropodiformes
Superfamily : Pteropodoidea
Family : Pteropodidae
Subfamily : Rousettinae
Tribe : Scotonycterini
Genus : Casinycteris

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Pohle, H. 1943. _Scotonycteris ophiodon_ sp. n., eine neue Art epomophoroider Flughunde. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1942:78-87.

Original name as described

Scotonycteris ophiodon

Other common names

Snake-toothed Fruit Bat

Type material

ZMB 50001

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Bipindi, Kribi District, Cameroon.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Liberia · Cote d'Ivoire · Ghana · Cameroon · Republic of the Congo

Taxonomy notes

moved from Scotonycteris to Casinycteris

Taxonomy notes citation

Hassanin, A. (2014). Description of a new bat species of the tribe Scotonycterini (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae) from southwestern Cameroon. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 337(2), 134-142.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004549

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Scotonycteris ophiodon cansdalei

(Hayman, 1946)

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

cansdalei

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1946.229

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/0b8f7017-3560-45ab-a17e-c76951300b67

Authority page

766

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Scotonycteris ophiodon

(Pohle, 1943)

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

ophiodon

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZMB 50001

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

78

Authority publication

Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:40) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:126) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  4. O'Brien, Menninger & Nash (2006:386) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7321)
  5. Happold & Happold (2013:295) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)

Casinycteris ophiodon

D. E. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2019

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

ophiodon

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

82

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

  1. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #20059) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #20059) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  3. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:82) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004549) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)

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