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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).
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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.
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The only ecoregional endemic mammal is a threatened Rhinolophidae bat, Hipposideros durgadasi (Table 1).
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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).
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Hipposideros armiger (_Large Horse-shoe Bat_) 50 55.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Family Species Muridae* Niviventer hinpoon* Muridae* Leopoldamys neilli* Rhinolophidae Hipposideros halophyllus Cervidae Cervus schomburgki (extinct)
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