Bats of the World

A Taxonomic and Geographic Database

Compiled and Edited by:
Nancy B. Simmons and Andrea L. Cirranello
American Museum of Natural History

Your search for Nesonycteris mengermani resulted in 1 species-level match:

Nesonycteris Thomas, 1887. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1887: 323.

Nesonycteris woodfordi Thomas, 1887

Nesonycteris mengermani (Flannery, 1993).
Rec. Aust. Mus. 45: 73.
Mengden and German's Blossom Bat

Source: GBIF.org

Melonycteris fardoulisi mengermani

Solomon Islands, Western Province, Kolombangara Island, Vanga Point

Vella Lavella, Kolombangara, New Georgia, Vangunu, and Russell Isls. (Solomon Islands)

CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Not Evaluated (raised from synonymy).

Previously considered a subspecies of Nesonycteris fardoulisi, but distinct; see Lavery et al. (2023). See also Flannery (1995). For phylogeography see Pulvers and Colgan (2006) and Lavery et al. (2023).

References:

Flannery, T.F 1993. Revision of the genus Melonycteris (Pteropodidae: Mammalia). Records of the Australian Museum 45: 59-80. Read article.

Flannery, T.F. 1995. Mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands. Cornell University Press, Ithaca: 464 pp. Not available online.

Lavery, T.H., L.H. DeCicco, K.V. Olson, P.S. Holland, and R.G. Moyle. 2023. Phylogeography of Solomon Islands blossom bats reflects oceanic divides and Pleistocene connections. Journal of Biogeography 50: 920-931. Read article.

Pulvers, J.N., and D.J. Colgan. 2006. Molecular phylogeography of the fruit bat genus Melonycteris in northern Melanesia. Journal of Biogeography 34(4): 713-723. Read abstract.