Cynopterus F. Cuvier, 1824. Dentes de Mammifères p. 248.
Pteropus marginatus E. Geoffroy, 1810 (=Vespertilio sphinx Vahl, 1797)
Cynopterus brachyotis (Müller, 1838).
Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. Physiol. 5: 146.
Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat
Cynopterus horsfieldii Gray, 1843.
List Specimens Mamm. Coll. Brit. Mus. p. 38.
Horsfield's Short-nosed Fruit Bat
harpax Thomas & Wroughton, 1909:
lyoni K. Andersen, 1912;
minor Lyon, 1908 [not Trouessart, 1878].
horsfieldii Gray, 1843
.persimilis K. Andersen, 1912
.princeps Miller, 1906
.Indonesia, Java
Thailand, Cambodia, W Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Lesser Sunda Isls, and adjacent small islands
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Least Concern (2019).
References:
Campbell, P., and T.H. Kunz. 2006. Cynopterus horsfieldii. Mammalian Species 802: 1-5. Read abstract.
Gray, J.E. 1843. List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum. George Woodfall and Son, London: 216 pp. Read volume.
Hill, J.E. 1961. Fruit-bats from the Federation of Malaya. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 136: 629-642. Read abstract.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Fourth Edition. [Including Declaration 44, amendments of Article 74.7.3, and the Amendment on e-publication]. The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London: 306 pp. Read book.
Cynopterus luzoniensis (Peters, 1861).
Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1861: 708.
Peters' Short-nosed Fruit Bat
Cynopterus minutus Miller, 1906.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 19: 63.
Minute Short-nosed Fruit Bat
Sumatra, Nias Isl
Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and Borneo
CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Least Concern (2019).
Included in brachyotis by Hill (1983) and Koopman (1993, 1994), but see Kitchener and Maharadatunkamsi (1991).
References:
Hill, J.E. 1983. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Indo-Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series 43: 103-208. Read article.
Kitchener, D.J., and Maharadatunkamsi. 1991. Description of a new species of Cynopterus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) from Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 15: 307-363. Read article.
Koopman, K.F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics. Handbuch der Zoologie, vol. VIII, Mammalia, Part 60. de Gruyter, Berlin: 224 pp. Not available online.
Koopman, K.F. 1993. Chiroptera. Pages 137-241 In D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder (eds.) Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Not available online.
Miller, G.S., Jr. 1906. Seven new Malayan bats. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 19(1906): 61-66. Read article.
Cynopterus nusatenggara Kitchener & Maharadatunkamsi, 1991.
Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 15: 312.
Nusatenggara Short-nosed Fruit Bat
Cynopterus sphinx (Vahl, 1797).
Skr. Nat. Selsk. Copenhagen 4(1): 123.
Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat
Cynopterus titthaecheilus (Temminck, 1825).
Monogr. Mamm. 1: 198.
Indonesian Short-nosed Fruit Bat
Includes harpax; see Hill (1961). See also Campbell and Kunz (2006). While this name is sometimes spelled horsefieldi, the correct original spelling is horsfieldii following ICZN article 33.4.