Pteropus tonganus Quoy and Gaimard 1830

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 : 345

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11340536

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Pteropus tonganus Quoy and Gaimard 1830
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Pteropus tonganus Quoy and Gaimard 1830 View in CoL

Pteropus tonganus Quoy and Gaimard 1830 View in CoL , in: d'Urville, Voy ... de Astrolabe, Zool., 1 (L'Homme, Mamm., Oiseaux): 74.

Type Locality: Tonga Isls, Tongatapu Isl.

Vernacular Names: Pacific Flying Fox.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Pteropus tonganus subsp. tonganus Quoy and Gaimard 1830

Subspecies Pteropus tonganus subsp. basiliscus Thomas 1915

Subspecies Pteropus tonganus subsp. geddiei MacGillivray 1860

Distribution: Karkar Isl (off NE New Guinea) and Rennell Isl (Solomon Isls), south to New Caledonia, east to Cook Isls.

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

Discussion: mariannus species group. Includes geddiei; see Sanborn (1931) and Felten and Kock (1972). Karkar Isl population (basiliscus) may actually be a subspecies of conspicillatus (K. Helgen, pers. comm.). It is possible that this species has been transported to some islands by humans; see Flannery (1995 b). Also see Miller and Wilson (1997), Bonaccorso (1998), and Bergmans (2001).

SSC

Sacramento State University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Pteropodidae

Genus

Pteropus

Loc

Pteropus tonganus Quoy and Gaimard 1830

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

Pteropus tonganus

Quoy and Gaimard 1830: 74
1830
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