Manado Fruit Bat - Boneia bidens
( Jentink, 1879 )

 

 



Subspecies: Unknown
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CITES Status: Not Listed
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
U.S. ESA Status: Not Listed

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Life Span: in the Wild
Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
This is a lowland forest bat that is also able to forage in partly cultivated habitats. It roosts in caves.

Range:
This species is found on Sulawesi and the adjacent islands of Lembeh, Buton and Manado in Indonesia (Bergmans and Rozendaal 1988). The type locality is Boné (near Gorontalo), north Sulawesi, Indonesia. The known elevation range for this species is from 200 to 1,060 m asl (Bergmans and Rozendaal 1988).

Conservation:
This species is known to occur in the Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park, Kakenauwe Nature Reserve on the island of Buton. Its range also includes three smaller reserves along the eastern tip of north Sulawesi where it is likely to occur (Bergmans and Rozendaal 1988). Currently, this species was found in two forest reserve in South Sulawesi, in 2013 and 2016 (S. Wiantoro pers. comm).

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