TRINKAT ISLAND CAVE

(Nancowry - IN)
8.083300,93.500000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified cave somewhere on the quite flat Trinket Island (note 1) once was occupied (key word: cave life) by a bat colony / day roost (Chiroptera: Microchiroptera) of Hipposideros diadema nicobarensis Geoffey 1813 (Hill 1967), a specied endemic to the Nicobar Islands, but found empty in 2002.11 to 2003.04 and 2003.08 to 2003.11 (BANDANA AUL & MARIMUTHU 2007: 914).An unspecified cave somewhere on the quite flat Trinket Island (note 1) once was occupied (key word: cave life) by a bat colony / day roost (Chiroptera: Microchiroptera) of Hipposideros diadema nicobarensis Geoffey 1813 (Hill 1967), a specied endemic to the Nicobar Islands, but found empty in 2002.11 to 2003.04 and 2003.08 to 2003.11 (BANDANA AUL & MARIMUTHU 2007: 914).

Documents

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History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1967: HILL, J.E. (1967) reports to have observed a colony of bats in a cave somewhere on . 2002.11 to 2003.04 or 2003.08 to 2003.11: BANDANA AUL & MARIMUTHU (2007: 913) approached a cave on Trinket Island, recorded a GPS reading, and searched for the bats of HILL (1967) but found that the cave is empty. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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