Eudiscoderma thongareeae

Soisook, Prajakjitr, Karapan, C. M. Francis, & P. J. J. Bates, 2015

Thongaree's False-vampire

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Pteropodiformes
Superfamily : Rhinolophoidea
Family : Megadermatidae
Genus : Eudiscoderma

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Soisook, P., Prajakjitr, A., Karapan, S., Francis, C.M. and Bates, P.J.J. 2015-03-16. A new genus and species of false vampire (Chiroptera: Megadermatidae) from peninsular Thailand. Zootaxa 3931(4):528-550.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3931.4.4

Original name as described

Eudiscoderma thongareeae

Type material

PSUZC-MM.2014.157

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Sirindhorn Waterfall, Bala Forest, Halabala WS [= Wildlife Sanctuary], Wang District, Narathiwat Province, S. Thailand, 5°48'08" N, 101°49'37" E, 135 masl."

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Thailand · Malaysia?

Taxonomy notes

recently described genus and species

Taxonomy notes citation

Soisook, P., Prajakjitr, A., Karapan, S., Francis, C. M., & Bates, P. J. (2015). A new genus and species of false vampire (Chiroptera: Megadermatidae) from peninsular Thailand. Zootaxa, 3931(4), 528-550.

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

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