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قراءة كتاب Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands

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Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands

Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands

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Pteropus rayneri lavellanus Andersen 802 Pteropus rayneri monoensis Lawrence 803 Pteropus rayneri cognatus Andersen 803 Pteropus rayneri rennelli Troughton 804 Pteropus woodfordi Thomas 804 Pteropus mahaganus Sanborn 806 Dobsonia inermis inermis Andersen 808 Dobsonia inermis new subspecies 809 Macroglossus lagochilus microtus Andersen 813 Melonycteris aurantius Phillips 816 Melonycteris woodfordi Thomas 816 Nyctimene albiventer bougainville Troughton 818 Nyctimene albiventer new subspecies 819 Nyctimene new species 822 Nyctimene major scitulus Andersen 825 Zoogeography and Speciation 825 Literature Cited 834

INTRODUCTION

The Solomon Islands constitute an archipelago east of the large island of New Guinea and more than a thousand miles off the northeastern coast of Australia. This archipelago, which is principally of volcanic origin although sedimentary layers of calcareous rocks occur on many islands (Lever, 1934; Belkin, 1962), consists of a double chain of islands having a northwest-southeast axis of more than 600 miles. The archipelago is more or less an extension of New Guinea and in fact is connected to it in stepping-stone fashion by New Britain, New Ireland, and numerous smaller islands (see Fig. 1).

Australia and New Guinea have many kinds of mammals but the only terrestrial mammals in the Solomon Islands are a species of the genus Phalanger (order Marsupialia), and several species of four genera of rodents, one genus of which probably was introduced by man. Additionally, several kinds of bats have reached and colonized the Solomon Islands.

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