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27 June 2022 First Record of the Black-Bearded Tomb Bat Taphozous melanopogon Temminck, 1841 (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) from Japan
Shun Kobayashi, Kishio Maeda, Hisao Tamura, Masako Izawa
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Abstract

A bat was rescued from Okinawajima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan in November 2021. Observing the external characteristics, we identified it as the black-bearded tomb bat, Taphozous melanopogon Temminck, 1841, which is mainly distributed in tropical Asia. To our knowledge, this is the first record of this species in Japan. However, we infer that it was accidentally only visiting and not established on Okinawajima Island.

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Shun Kobayashi, Kishio Maeda, Hisao Tamura, and Masako Izawa "First Record of the Black-Bearded Tomb Bat Taphozous melanopogon Temminck, 1841 (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) from Japan," Mammal Study 47(4), 261-264, (27 June 2022). https://doi.org/10.3106/ms2022-0007
Received: 23 February 2022; Accepted: 10 May 2022; Published: 27 June 2022
KEYWORDS
Chiroptera
first record from Japan
Ryukyu Archipelago
Taphozous melanopogon
tropical Asia
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