Recently I had an opportunity to examine a
Tadarida specimen was collected in the temple of Angkor Wat, northern Cambodia on 25 August, 1964, by Dr. R. KANO. He kindly presented the specimen to the National Science Museum (Tokyo) . As this specimen was not fresh, it is preserved as a skeleton. Although the accurate identification is quitely impossible due to its a poor condition several skeletal characters indicate that it is probably
Tadarida plicata plicata (BUCHANNAN, 1800) new to Cambodia.
Characters of the specimen: Complete premaxillary bones isolating two small incisive foramina by their palatal branches indicate that it belongs to the subgenus
Chaerephon DOBSON, 1874. Sagittal crest and lambdoid crests evident, braincase is slightly elevated at anterior portion in dorsal profile. Zygomatic arches widest in posterior extremities. Width of mesopterygoid space about a half its length. Gap between anterior upper incisors about 1.5 mm.
HILL, 1961 recognized three species, nine subspecies in the subgenus
Ciaerephon in the Indo-Australian region. This specimen agrees with seven characters of
Tadarida plicata plicata, five of
Tadarida plicata dilatata, three of
Tadarida plicata insularis, Tadarida jobensis jobensis, and
Tadarida jobensis colonicus among ten linear characters given by HILL.
This specimens is distinguished from
Tadarida plicata tennis, Tadarida plicata luzonus and
Tadarida jobensis solomonis, by its much larger dimentions and from
T. johorensis by the rostrum not as flat as the latter. Therefore, this specimen seems to be most closely related to
Tadarida plicata plicata.
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