First distributional record of Greater false vampire bat (Lyroderma lyra Geoffroy, 1810) from the Dhubri district of Assam, Northeast India ...

• Main Author: Ali, Azad
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Greater false vampire bat; Megaderma lyra; Lyroderma lyra; New record; Dhubri; Arctic; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7850158; https://zenodo.org/record/7850158

Bats are found all over the world except Arctic and Antarctic regions and a few isolated oceanic islands. Northeast India has 28 genera and 62 species and subspecies of bats. The state of Assam has a total of 39 different bat species under 16 genera. On 12.04.2017, one male Greater false vampire bat Lyroderma lyra Geoffroy, 1810 (former ‘ Megaderma lyra ’) was collected from a classroom near the old Zoology Department (Latitude: N 26 0 1′ 28.1136″; Longitude: E 89 0 58′ 9.9912″) of B. N. College campus of Dhubri district of western Assam which lies in the Brahmaputra valley of Assam, India (South Asia). It comes under the family ‘Megadermatidae’ which is an ancient family of carnivorous bats. An individual was a robust one with a forearm length of 66.2 mm and 93 gms of body mass. Some of the other important morphometric measurements recorded were as Length of the ear (E)-30mm, Length of head and body (HB)- 82 mm, Length of the penis ( p )-9mm, Height of noseleaf (nslf)-9.5mm, Wing span (wsp)-423mm and the ...