Eidolon helvum (Kerr, 1792). Anim. Kingdom, l (l):xvii,91. TYPE LOCALITY: Senegal. DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Ethiopia to South Africa; Madagascar; Yemen; Aden; islands in Guinea Gulf and off eastern Africa. COMMENT: Includes dupreanum and sabaeum; see Hayman and Hill, 1971, Part 2: 11. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405001010001001.

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 114, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990

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