| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1985 |
| Authors: | I. A. Nader |
| Journal: | Mammalia |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Pagination: | 429-431 |
| Date Published: | 1985 |
| Keywords: | Arabia, Chiroptera, Eidolon helvum sabaeum, first record, Pteropodidae, Saudi Arabia |
| Abstract: | The chiropteran fauna of the Arabian peninsula was reviewed by Harrison (1964, 1972) who recorded thirteen species of bats from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Additional information and new records of bats for the kingdom were given by Nader (1975, 1982), Nader and Kock (1980, 1983a and b) and Jennings (1979) bringing the number of bat species recorded from the kingdom to nineteen. The present record brings the total of Saudi Arabian bats to twenty species. Further collecting most likely will add new species to the chiropteran fauna of the kingdom. |