Görföl Tamás, Fukui Dai, Csorba Gábor
Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross utca 13, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary.
Zootaxa. 2020 Mar 23;4755(1):zootaxa.4755.1.8. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4755.1.8.
Insular bats are among the most vulnerable mammal species whose survival are threatened by several human-mediated factors, frequently paralleled by the paucity of information and lack of adequate management plans. Pipistrellus sturdeei is known only by the holotype collected from the remote Bonin Islands more than a hundred years ago and is declared to be extinct by the Japanese authorities. However, its taxonomic validity and collection locality is regarded ambiguous by some scholars. Here we report details about its collection circumstances and provide evidence that it morphologically differs from all other pipistrelles. We would like to raise attention on the species and the importance of a detailed study on its possible survival.
岛屿蝙蝠是最脆弱的哺乳动物物种之一，其生存受到多种人为因素的威胁，同时常常伴随着信息匮乏和缺乏适当的管理计划。斯氏伏翼仅因一百多年前从偏远的小笠原群岛采集的正模标本为人所知，日本当局宣布其已灭绝。然而，一些学者认为其分类有效性和采集地点存在疑问。在此，我们报告其采集情况的详细信息，并提供证据表明它在形态上与所有其他伏翼属蝙蝠不同。我们希望引起人们对该物种的关注以及对其可能存活情况进行详细研究的重要性。
