Pteropus giganteus Brünnich 1782

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 313-350 : 337

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11340296

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scientific name

Pteropus giganteus Brünnich 1782
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Pteropus giganteus Brünnich 1782 View in CoL

Pteropus giganteus Brünnich 1782 View in CoL , Dyrenes Historie, Vol. 1: 43.

Type Locality: India, Bengal.

Vernacular Names: Indian Flying Fox.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Pteropus giganteus subsp. giganteus Brünnich 1782

Subspecies Pteropus giganteus subsp. ariel G. M. Allen 1908

Subspecies Pteropus giganteus subsp. chinghaiensis Wang and Wang 1962

Subspecies Pteropus giganteus subsp. leucocephalus Hodgson 1835

Distribution: Maldive Isls, India (incl. Andaman Isls), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma, Tsinghai ( China). The Tsinghai record requires confirmation. Cambodian records are apparently erroneous; see Kock (2000).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: vampyrus species group. Includes ariel; see Hill (1958). Possibly conspecific with vampyrus ; see Corbet and Hill (1992). Reviewed in part by Bates and Harrison (1997) and Horácek et al. (2000).

SSC

Sacramento State University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Pteropodidae

Genus

Pteropus

Loc

Pteropus giganteus Brünnich 1782

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Pteropus giganteus

Brünnich 1782: 43
1782
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