Rousettus leschenaultii | Red List of Bangladesh Volume 2: Mammals
Taxa
Rousettus leschenaultii | (Desmarest, 1820)
Publication
NRL Record ID
327660
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species is common and distributed in a wide range of habitats from the coastal area to the high hills with mixed evergreen forests (Khan 2001, 2008, 2015, Nameer 2009); presumably has a large population. It is found in a wide habitat types and tolerant to a degree of habitat modification (Bates and Helgen 2008). Moreover, it has no significant threat. It does not fulfill any of the criteria to qualify threatened categories. So, this species is considered as Least Concern.
Assessment year
2015
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
Md. Kamrul Hasan
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
NGO
Academic
Assessor affiliation specific
Academic|NGO
Criteria system specifics
IUCN v3.1 + Regional Guidelines v4.0
Criteria system used
IUCN
Criteria Citation
IUCN (2012) IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. Second edition. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iv + 32pp; IUCN (2012) Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
URL (link) of redlist assessment or publication
http://iucnredlistbd.org/
Endemic to region
No
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: No
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
Data Deficient in Bangladesh (IUCN Bangladesh 2000).
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rousettus leschenaultii | Animalia | Chordata | Mammalia | Chiroptera | Pteropodidae | Rousettus |