Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands

University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History Vol. 16, No. 8, pp. 777-837, 17 figures in text
December 16, 1968

University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History Editorial Committee: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman; Frank B. Cross, Editor; Henry S. Fitch; J. Knox Jones, Jr. Volume 16, No. 8, pp. 777-837, 17 figs. Published December 16, 1968 University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas PRINTED BY ROBERT R. (BOB) SANDERS, STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1968
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Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands BY CARLETON J. PHILLIPS


Australia and New Guinea have many kinds of mammals but the only terrestrial mammals in the Solomon Islands are a species of the genus Phalanger (order Marsupialia), and several species of four genera of rodents, one genus of which probably was introduced by man. Additionally, several kinds of bats have reached and colonized the Solomon Islands.