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line:xlsx:hash://sha256/181a039844a33e66a35a457b7ece741051086608e425a040051b79581d606b97!/Sheet1!/L1594	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet	N/A	N/A	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris hobbit		[MSW3] See Flannery (1995a) and Bonaccorso (1998).; [HMW] Syconycteris hobbit A. C. Ziegler, 1982 , Mount Kaindi, Morobe Province , Papua New Guinea . This species is monotypic.; [batnames2022] See Flannery (1995 a ) and Bonaccorso (1998).; [batnames2023] See Flannery (1995 a ) and Bonaccorso (1998).; [batnames2025_1.7] See Flannery (1995a) and Bonaccorso (1998).														hobbit				hobbit	hobbit			hobbit A. C. Ziegler, 1982						N/A					Distribution: Known only from a small area above 2000 meters on Mt. Kaindi in eastern New Guinea.		Corbet, G.B. and Hill, J.E. 1991. A World List of Mammalian Species. Third edition. Oxford University Press, London, 243 pp. ISBN 0-19-854017-5		New Guinea; ref. 4.25	Koopman, K.F. 1993. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 137–242 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1206 pp.	Ziegler	1982	Occas. Pap. Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 25(5):l-22.		Mountains of C New Guinea.	Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Mt. Kaindi.		ZIEGLER	1982	Size medium (fore arm length, 45 50 mm). Uropatagium absent. Terminal phalanx of third digit of wing usually more than 34 mm. Ear pinna short and rounded. Metatarsus and digits of foot relatively hairy.	Distribution: Known only from a small area above 2000 meters on Mt. Kaindi in eastern New Guinea.	No subspecies.		38	species	S. hobbit	ZIEGLER	1982	Syconycteris	genus	Syconycteris hobbit				Size medium (fore arm length, 45 50 mm). Uropatagium absent. Terminal phalanx of third digit of wing usually more than 34 mm. Ear pinna short and rounded. Metatarsus and digits of foot relatively hairy.	No subspecies.		2. S. hobbit ZIEGLER 1982.	2	NA			Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. (Available from Johns Hopkins University Press, 1-800-537-5487 or (410) 516-6900, or at http://www.press.jhu.edu).	CHIROPTERA	Pteropodidae			Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris		hobbit	Ziegler		1982		Occas. Pap. Bernice P. Bishop Mus.	25	5	5		Moss-forest Blossom Bat	Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Mt. Kaindi.	Mountains of C New Guinea.	IUCN/SSC Action Plan (1992) – Rare. IUCN 2003 – Vulnerable.		See Flannery (1995a) and Bonaccorso (1998).	194287C9FF92BA3EB486FDFBBAF7F96C	Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions	978-84-16728-19-0	hbmw_9_Molossidae_598.pdf.imf	hash://md5/e57bffb1ffbcba10b412f760b226ffce	105	zip:hash://sha256/ec5fd314a06aba1a7b0b72f23e54ac625ae272bd98f82f1d01f4c09627d9e8e0!/treatments-xml-main/data/03/AD/87/03AD87FAFFEBF6058C6731ECF7A0F211.xml	Syconycteris hobbit	Pteropodidae	Syconycteris	hobbit	A. C. Ziegler	1982	Syconyctére de Nouvelle-Guinée @fr | Mooswald-Blitenflughund @de | Syconicterio de Nueva Guinea @es | Highland Blossom Bat @en	Syconycteris hobbit A. C. Ziegler, 1982 , Mount Kaindi, Morobe Province , Papua New Guinea . This species is monotypic.	C New Guinea Mts in Western New Guinea and Papua New Guinea ( West Sepik , Western, Morobe , Central, and Northern provinces).	Head-body 59-75 mm (tailless), ear 11-13 mm , hindfoot 10- 13 mm , forearm 44-52 mm ; weight 15-20 g . The Moss-forest Blossom Bat can be distinguished from the Southern Blossom Bat (S. australis ) based on its longer forearm length, ear shape, longer and denser fur, and very hairy feet (opposed to nearly naked). Head and muzzle are elongated (although somewhat shorter than in other species of Syconycteris ), with raised, forwardfacing nostrils. Dorsal pelage is dark grayish brown and darker along head and nape; ventral pelage is more dark blonde, grayer and somewhat lighter than dorsum and having silvery tipped hairs giving a grizzled appearance. Eyes are large, with dark brown irises; ears are relatively short and rounded, with bluntly rounded tips, are colored like dorsum, and have thickened paler edges. Wings are black, and fingers are paler; second digits of wings have a claw. There is no uropatagium, but there is a strip of longer fur along inside of legs where uropatagium would be; calcar is absent. Skull is elongated, with comparatively short and narrow rostrum for the genus, andjaws and dentition are much more robust than in species of Macroglossus . Molars and premolars are largely reduced, narrow, and linear with flat tops; molars are more elongate than in the Southern Blossom Bat; upper incisors are uniformly large and procumbent; and I, are much larger than I, and do not have any gap between them.	Upper montane forests, subalpine scrubland, rural gardens, and secondary forest at elevations of 1817-2700 m . The Moss-forest Blossom Bat probably occurs at upper limit of vegetation growth and is much less common at lower elevations. It is sympatric with the Southern Blossom Bat throughout its distribution.	Moss-forest Blossom Bats are most likely nectarivorous.	A pregnant Moss-forest Blossom Bat with an early stage embryo was collected in July and lactating females in late February and May (Hindenburg Range/Star Mountains) and June-July (Mount Kaindi). Litter size is one.	Moss-forest Blossom Bats are nocturnal, entering deep torpor during the day and foraging at night.	No information.	Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Recent fieldwork has shown that the Moss-forest Blossom Batis locally abundant whereverit is found, althoughits full distribution is not necessarily well known and might be much more extensive. Its most plausible threat seems to be climate change causing broad scale forest cover loss and fires and dieback caused by drought from El Nino years.	Aplin & Armstrong (2016b) | Armstrong, Aplin & Lamaris (2015) | Bonaccorso & McNab (1997) | Flannery (1995b) | Maryanto & Boeadi (1994) | Ziegler (1982)		77. Moss-forest Blossom Bat Syconycteris hobbit French: Syconyctére de Nouvelle-Guinée / German: Mooswald-Blitenflughund / Spanish: Syconicterio de Nueva Guinea Other common names: Highland Blossom Bat Taxonomy. Syconycteris hobbit A. C. Ziegler, 1982 , Mount Kaindi, Morobe Province , Papua New Guinea . This species is monotypic. Distribution. C New Guinea Mts in Western New Guinea and Papua New Guinea ( West Sepik , Western, Morobe , Central, and Northern provinces). Descriptive notes. Head-body 59-75 mm (tailless), ear 11-13 mm , hindfoot 10- 13 mm , forearm 44-52 mm ; weight 15-20 g . The Moss-forest Blossom Bat can be distinguished from the Southern Blossom Bat (S. australis ) based on its longer forearm length, ear shape, longer and denser fur, and very hairy feet (opposed to nearly naked). Head and muzzle are elongated (although somewhat shorter than in other species of Syconycteris ), with raised, forwardfacing nostrils. Dorsal pelage is dark grayish brown and darker along head and nape; ventral pelage is more dark blonde, grayer and somewhat lighter than dorsum and having silvery tipped hairs giving a grizzled appearance. Eyes are large, with dark brown irises; ears are relatively short and rounded, with bluntly rounded tips, are colored like dorsum, and have thickened paler edges. Wings are black, and fingers are paler; second digits of wings have a claw. There is no uropatagium, but there is a strip of longer fur along inside of legs where uropatagium would be; calcar is absent. Skull is elongated, with comparatively short and narrow rostrum for the genus, andjaws and dentition are much more robust than in species of Macroglossus . Molars and premolars are largely reduced, narrow, and linear with flat tops; molars are more elongate than in the Southern Blossom Bat; upper incisors are uniformly large and procumbent; and I, are much larger than I, and do not have any gap between them. Habitat. Upper montane forests, subalpine scrubland, rural gardens, and secondary forest at elevations of 1817-2700 m . The Moss-forest Blossom Bat probably occurs at upper limit of vegetation growth and is much less common at lower elevations. It is sympatric with the Southern Blossom Bat throughout its distribution. Food and Feeding. Moss-forest Blossom Bats are most likely nectarivorous. Breeding. A pregnant Moss-forest Blossom Bat with an early stage embryo was collected in July and lactating females in late February and May (Hindenburg Range/Star Mountains) and June-July (Mount Kaindi). Litter size is one. Activity patterns. Moss-forest Blossom Bats are nocturnal, entering deep torpor during the day and foraging at night. Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information. Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Recent fieldwork has shown that the Moss-forest Blossom Batis locally abundant whereverit is found, althoughits full distribution is not necessarily well known and might be much more extensive. Its most plausible threat seems to be climate change causing broad scale forest cover loss and fires and dieback caused by drought from El Nino years. Bibliography. Aplin & Armstrong (2016b), Armstrong, Aplin & Lamaris (2015), Bonaccorso & McNab (1997), Flannery (1995b), Maryanto & Boeadi (1994), Ziegler (1982).	Simmons, N.B. and A.L. Cirranello. 2022B. Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. Accessed on 10/11/2022.	Pteropodidae	Syconycteris hobbit	Syconycteris		hobbit	Ziegler	1982	0	Occas. Pap. Bernice P. Bishop Mus.	25(5): 5	Moss-forest Blossom Bat	None.	Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Mt. Kaindi.	Mountains of C New Guinea.	Not listed.	Least Concern	See Flannery (1995 a ) and Bonaccorso (1998).	Mammal Diversity Database. (2023). Mammal Diversity Database (Version 1.11) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7830771 released 15 April 2023	Syconycteris hobbit	23	Moss-forest Blossom Bat	Highland Blossom Bat	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	CHIROPTERA	PTEROPODIFORMES	NA	NA	PTEROPODOIDEA	PTEROPODIDAE	MACROGLOSSUSINAE	NA	Syconycteris	NA	hobbit	A. C. Ziegler	1982	0	Syconycteris_hobbit	Ziegler, A. C. (1982). The Australo-Papuan genus Syconycteris (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) with the description of a new Papua New Guinea species. Occasional Papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 25(5), 5.	http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op25-5.pdf	BPBM BBM-NG 96644		Mount Kaindi, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.			hobbit A. C. Ziegler, 1982	NA	NA	Indonesia|Papua New Guinea	Oceania	Australasia/Oceania	LC	0	0	0	Syconycteris_hobbit	0	sciname match	Syconycteris_hobbit	0	IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on [28 September, 2022].	21183	Syconycteris hobbit	ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	CHIROPTERA	PTEROPODIDAE	Syconycteris	hobbit	Ziegler, 1982		200000000	Syconycteris hobbit	Least Concern		2021	2016-02-17 00:00:00 UTC	3.1	English	The species is listed Least Concern because it is very likely to be present in additional poorly sampled high ranges in Papua New Guinea and in the tracts of poorly surveyed high elevation country of the Maokop of Indonesian Papua Province. Recent fieldwork by K.P. Aplin in the Hindenburg Range and Star Mountains of far western Papua New Guinea found it to be locally abundant, to occur across a wide elevational range from 1,800–2,600 m, and to forage in garden and secondary forest habitats at the lower elevations (Armstrong et al.   2015). The potential threats to high elevation populations are limited to risks associated with climate change or natural variability (e.g. El Niño-related dieback and fires), but none of these are likely to operate across sufficiently large elevational range and spatial area to threaten the survival of this species.	Its natural habitat is presumably upper montane forest and subalpine scrubland but it has also adapted to forage in rural gardens and secondary forest (Flannery 1995, Armstrong et al. 2015). Nothing is known of its diet or movement patterns. Lactating females have been observed in the Hindenburg Range/Star Mountains in late February (Armstrong et al. 2005) and in May (Flannery 1995), and on Mt Kaindi in June and July. As in other species of Syconycteris , a single young is produced. In other species of the genus multiple pregnancies can follow in close succession, but whether this is true or not for S. hobbit is unknown.	The high montane habitat favoured by this species is largely above the effective elevational limits of agriculture and forestry in New Guinea, so it is unlikely to be affected by habitat loss associated with either of these sectors. Furthermore, where S. hobbit does occur at lower elevation, it appears to be tolerant of disturbance and even of canopy loss, and to make use of garden resources. The only plausible threats to the species are: 1) broad scale loss of forest cover at higher elevations due to climate change (but this might increase the area of upper montane forest over shrubland given sufficient time for conversion); and 2) forest loss due to dieback and fire under El Niño drought conditions. In 1997 there was large scale loss of habitat in the area of the central population due to El Niño conditions and subsequent fires (T.F. Flannery pers. comm.). Lower elevation populations might be either compromised or advantaged by forest disturbance for agriculture. Infrastructure expansion may be reducing habitat for the eastern population (F.J. Bonaccorso pers. comm.). None of these factors are likely to simultaneously threaten all populations of S. hobbit across its extensive geographic range.	This species is locally common in high elevation forests (Flannery 1995, Armstrong et al.  2015), with observations of multiple captures per mist net each night. At lower elevations it is captured far less often than members of the S. australis complex but is nonetheless not uncommon. No estimate of population size is available for any locality, but its local abundance coupled with the large areas of potential habitat, especially in Indonesian Papua Province, suggest a large effective population size.	Decreasing	This species occurs in the higher altitude montane forests on the central cordillera of the island of New Guinea (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea). It is known from two well-separated localities in Indonesian Papua and from three main regions of Papua New Guinea (Star Mountains to Telefomin, Western and West Sepik Provinces; Crater mountain area, Chimbu Province; and Mount Kaindi, Morobe Province) but it may also occur in other, poorly surveyed blocks of high elevation forest along the central cordillera between these sites and further to the east and west. It has been recorded between 1,817 and 2,700 m a.s.l. but almost certainly ranges higher to limit of vegetation growth.		Terrestrial	This species has been recorded from the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area.	Australasian		FALSE	FALSE	Global	Simmons, N. B., & Cirranello, A. L. (2023). Batnames.org Species List Version 1.4 (1.4). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8136157 	Pteropodidae	Syconycteris		hobbit	Ziegler	1982	0	Occas. Pap. Bernice P. Bishop Mus.	25(5): 5	Moss-forest Blossom Bat	None.	Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Mt. Kaindi.	Mountains of C New Guinea.	Not listed.	Least Concern	See Flannery (1995 a ) and Bonaccorso (1998).	Syconycteris hobbit	1004411	23	Moss-forest Blossom Bat	Highland Blossom Bat	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	CHIROPTERA	PTEROPODIFORMES	NA	NA	PTEROPODOIDEA	Pteropodidae	MACROGLOSSUSINAE	NA	Syconycteris	NA	hobbit	A. C. Ziegler	1982	0	Syconycteris_hobbit	Ziegler, A. C. (1982). The Australo-Papuan genus Syconycteris (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) with the description of a new Papua New Guinea species. Occasional Papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 25(5), 5.	http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op25-5.pdf	BPBM BBM-NG 96644		Mount Kaindi, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.			hobbit A. C. Ziegler, 1982	NA	NA				Indonesia|Papua New Guinea	Oceania	Australasia/Oceania	LC	0	0	0	Syconycteris_hobbit	0	sciname match	Syconycteris_hobbit	0	Burgin, C. J., Zijlstra, J. S., Becker, M. A., Handika, H., Alston, J. M., Widness, J., Liphardt, S., Huckaby, D. G., and Upham, N. S. (2025). How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge. Journal of Mammalogy in revision: TBD. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.27.640393	Syconycteris_hobbit	1004411	23	Moss-forest Blossom Bat	Highland Blossom Bat	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	Chiroptera	Yinpterochiroptera	NA	NA	Pteropodoidea	Pteropodidae	Macroglossusinae	NA	Syconycteris	NA	hobbit	A. C. Ziegler	0	Syconycteris hobbit	Ziegler, A.C. 1982. The Australo-Papuan genus _Syconycteris_ (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) with the description of a new Papua New Guinea species. Occasional Papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum 25(5):1-22.	http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op25-5.pdf	BPBM VZ-BBM-NG 96644	holotype	http://portal.vertnet.org/o/bpbm/vz-bbm-ng?id=879f987d-d9ea-493b-9747-e017e4f3a450	Mount Kaindi, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.	-7.51667	146.6667	NA	NA				Indonesia|Papua New Guinea	Oceania (Continent)	Australasia	LC	0	0	0	Syconycteris_hobbit	0	sciname match	Syconycteris_hobbit	0	Simmons, N. B., & Cirranello, A. L. (2025). Batnames.org Species List Version 1.7 (1.7). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14796586	Pteropodidae	Syconycteris		hobbit	Ziegler	1982	0	Occas. Pap. Bernice P. Bishop Mus.	25(5): 5	Moss-forest Blossom Bat	None.	Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Mt. Kaindi.	Mountains of C New Guinea.	<a href='https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php' target='_blank'>Not Listed</a>	<a href='https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/21183/209535849/' target='_blank'>Least Concern</a>	See Flannery (1995a) and Bonaccorso (1998).		Mammal Diversity Database. (2025). Mammal Diversity Database (Version 2.2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15007505	NA	Syconycteris hobbit; Syconycteris hobbit; Syconycteris hobbit; Syconycteris hobbit; Syconycteris hobbit; Syconycteris hobbit; hobbit; Syconyctére de Nouvelle-Guinée; Mooswald-Blitenflughund; Syconicterio de Nueva Guinea; Highland Blossom Bat; Moss-forest Blossom Bat; Highland Blossom Bat; Moss-forest Blossom Bat; Moss-forest Blossom Bat; S. hobbit