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Dobsonia chapmani
Rabor, 1952. Chicago Acad. Sci. Nat. Hist. Misc., 96:2.
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ORDER—CHIROPTERA
FAMILY—Pteropodidae
COMMON NAME—Negros
naked-backed fruit bat.
DISTRIBUTION—Philippines
only; endemic to Negros (FMNH) and Cebu (DMNH) Islands.
HABITAT—Formerly
common in lowland forest from sea level to 800 m in southern Negros Island,
where it roosted exclusively in caves (Heaney and Heideman, 1987; Rabor,
1986; Utzurrum, 1992).
STATUS—Believed
to have become extinct in 1970s as a result of the combination of forest
destruction, disturbance by guano miners, and hunting (Heaney & Heideman,
1987; Utzurrum, 1992).
COMMENT—Considered to be conspecific
with D. exoleta by Corbet
and Hill (1992) but not by Koopman (1993).
NOTE ADDED IN 2005--Living populations have been discovered on Cebu (Pangutalan et al., in press) and on Negros (Alcala et al., in press).
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