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  • Many animal species occur in peat swamp forests, but only the Borneo roundleaf bat, Hipposideros doriae, and two birds, the Javan white-eye (Zosterops flavus) and the hooked-billed bulbul (Setornis criniger), are considered near endemic (Table 1, Table 2).

    Borneo peat swamp forests 2008

  • Other species present are bare-backed fruit-bat Dobsonia inermis, Pacific flying-fox Pteropus tonganus, spurred horseshoe-bat Hipposideros calcaratus and large Melanesian bent-wing bat Miniopterus propitristis.

    East Rennell, Solomon Islands 2008

  • The only ecoregional endemic mammal is a threatened Rhinolophidae bat, Hipposideros durgadasi (Table 1).

    Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests 2008

  • These are Mount Nimba otter shrew (Micropotamogale lamottei, EN), two species of white-toothed shrew (Crocidura obscurior and C. nimbae) and a species of leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros marisae VU).

    Guinean montane forests 2007

  • Hipposideros armiger (_Large Horse-shoe Bat_) 50 55.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Ridley's leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros ridleyi) roosts in the cavities of trees (in hollows and cavities of standing trees, under fallen trees and logs) and is listed as "vulnerable" on the

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • We studied three species of bats (Miniopterus schreibersii fuliginosus, Hipposideros armiger and H. pratti), representing the two suborders Yangochiroptera and Yinpterochiroptera.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Zhe Wang 2010

  • Bulmer's fruit bat (Aproteles bulmerae) and the large pogonomelomys (Pogonomelomys bruijni) are critically endangered, whereas the lesser tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene draconilla), New Guinea sheathtail-bat (Emballonura furax), Fly River horseshoe-bat (Hipposideros muscinus), and Papuan mastiff bat (Otomops papuensis) are considered vulnerable.

    Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests 2008

  • Family Species Vespertilionidae Pipistrellus kitcheneri* Tupaiidae Tupaia montana* Tupaiidae Tupaia picta* Vespertilionidae Pipistrellus cuprosus* Vespertilionidae Murina rozendaali* Cercopithecidae Presbytis hosei* Sciuridae Callosciurus adamsi* Sciuridae Petaurillus hosei* Muridae Aeromys thomasi* Muridae Maxomys ochraceiventer* Muridae Maxomys baeodon* Muridae Haeromys pusillus* Rhinolophidae Hipposideros doriae An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.

    Borneo lowland rain forests 2008

  • Family Species Muridae* Niviventer hinpoon* Muridae* Leopoldamys neilli* Rhinolophidae Hipposideros halophyllus Cervidae Cervus schomburgki (extinct)

    Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests 2008

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