| Tailess fruit bat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Pteropodidae |
| Genus: | Megaerops |
| Species: | M. ecaudatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Megaerops ecaudatus (Temminck, 1837) |
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| Tailess Fruit Bat range | |
The Tailess Fruit Bat (Megaerops ecaudatus) is a species of megabat.
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Individuals have been found in the lowland primary forest at Poring in Sabah and Taleban in Thailand, Bario highland and secondary forest of Balui both in Sarawak. M. ecaudatus ranges in the primary forest and open habitat (Medway 1978, Payne et al. 1985). It ranges from Thailand, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra; Kinabalu, Danum, Tawau, and Tenom in Sabah; Temburong and Tasik Merimbun in Brunei; Bario in Sarawak; Kapuas and Kutai in Kalimantan. (Payne et al. 1985).
Two males and two females were captured in various habitats. An adult female was collected in April 1995 and adult male on April 1996. A subadult female was taken from the Balui secondary forest in June 1994 while an immature was collected from the primary forest in Taleban on 28 March 1997. In Cameron Highlands, Peninsula Malaysia, females were pregnant in February and extending to March and June (Medway 1978). Females with suckling juveniles were also observed in November (Medway 1978). A specimen MTA96004 was collected in the canopy net approximately 30 m above ground level. The specimen BD013 was collected at 1,100 m elevation in Bario upland. According to Lekagul and McNeely (1977), M. ecaudatus have been recorded both in the lowland and mountain up to 3,000 m in Thailand.