- Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat
Taxobox
name = Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Mammalia
ordo =Chiroptera
familia =Pteropodidae
genus = "Epomops "
species = "E. franqueti"
binomial = "Epomops franqueti"
binomial_authority = (Tomes, 1860)
synonyms =Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat ("Epomops franqueti") is a species of
bat in thePteropodidae family.It is found in
Angola ,Benin ,Cameroon ,Central African Republic ,Republic of the Congo ,Democratic Republic of the Congo ,Ivory Coast ,Equatorial Guinea ,Gabon ,Ghana ,Nigeria ,Rwanda ,Sudan ,Tanzania ,Togo ,Uganda , and possiblyZambia . Its naturalhabitat s are subtropical or tropical dryforest s, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropicalswamp s, and drysavanna .Franquet's epauletted fruit bat is one of three species of African fruit bat found to be asymptomatically infected with the
Ebola virus . It is not known whether these species are incidental hosts or a reservoir of "Ebolavirus" infection for humans and other terrestrial mammals.References
* Mickleburgh, S., Hutson, A., Bergmans, W., Fahr, J. & Juste, J. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/7909/all Epomops franqueti] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on
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