Chironax melanocephalus Temminck 1825
Creators: name: Voon-Ching Lim
name: Rosli Ramli
name: Bhassu, Subha
name: John-James Wilson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae
Chironax
Chironax melanocephalus

description: <i>Chironax melanocephalus</i> Temminck, 1825] [ <i>Pteropus melanocephalus</i> Temminck, 1825: 190; Gunung Karang, Bantam, west Java, INDONESIA (Collector unknown; Type unknown) [58]. <i>Chironax melanocephalus</i> [9]. <b>Common English name:</b> Black-capped Fruit Bat <b>Barcode Index Number:</b> BOLD:ACG2580 (1 DNA barcode from Peninsular Malaysia; Fig 2) <b>Remarks:</b> Sing et al. [5] first reported that a DNA barcode collected at Ulu Gombak, shared 95.8% similarity with DNA barcodes of <i>Chironax melanocephalus</i> from Java, Indonesia (Fig 2). The DNA barcodes from Java are likely to represent <i>C</i>. <i>melanocephalus</i> sensu stricto as they were collected from type locality and are assigned to a different BIN (BOLD:AAE9045). Whether several forms of <i>Chironax</i> occur in Peninsular Malaysia remains to be determined. Two distinct morphotypes of <i>C</i>. <i>melanocephalus</i> sensu lato were recently described from Sumatra, Indonesia, neither matching with either of the currently recognised subspecies: <i>C</i>. <i>m</i>. <i>melanocephalus</i> and <i>C</i>. <i>m</i>. <i>tumulus</i> [59]. No DNA barcodes were provided for these specimens but it remains possible that the taxon in Peninsular Malaysia is one of these putative species. <b>IUCN status:</b> Least Concern <b>Recorded at: Selangor</b>: Ulu Gombak [5, 52, 54], Bukit Kutu Wildlife Reserve [51], Sungai Dusun Forest Reserve [56]; <b>Pahang</b>: Cameron Highland [23, 60], Krau Wildlife Reserve [11], Fraser Hill Forest Reserve [56]; <b>Perak</b>: Royal Belum State Park [48], Bayor River-Rantau Panjang [49]; <b>Johor:</b> Endau Kluang Forest Reserve [56]; <b>Kedah</b>: Ulu Muda Forest Reserve [57]; <b>Kelantan</b>: Air Panas-Gua Musang [61], Gunung Chamah [62]. <i>C</i>. <i>melanocephalus</i> is common in lowland, hill and montane forests where the species roosts in large colonies in caves and rock shelters but in smaller groups in tree ferns [11, 14, 23].
description: Published as part of <i>Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu &amp; John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, pp. 1-65 in PLoS ONE 12 (7)</i> on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179555, http://zenodo.org/record/4251352
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