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Epomophorus anselli
Ansell's epauletted fruit bat
Ansell's epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus anselli) is known only from Malawi, where it has been collected in Kasungu National Park in the 1980s, and from the Karonga area in 1961.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 2, restricted, extent unclear Class Mammalia Realm Afrotropical Locality Miombo As IUCN records it Epomophorus anselli Bergmans & van Strien, 2004 This species is one of 3,062 in a list of vertebrates the IUCN Red List records as Data Deficient or has never assessed, ranked by how narrowly restricted the published record says they are. The sentence above is the evidence the tier was read from, quoted from Matthew Richardson, Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the World (2023).
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