Pteropus gilliardorum Van Deusen 1969

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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Pteropus gilliardorum Van Deusen 1969 View in CoL

Pteropus gilliardorum Van Deusen 1969 View in CoL , Am. Mus. Novit., 2371: 5.

Type Locality: Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Arch., West New Britain Province, Whiteman Mtns, Wild Dog Ridge, ca. 1,600 m.

Vernacular Names: Gilliard's Flying Fox.

Synonyms: Pteropus gilliardi Van Deusen 1969 ; Pteropus gailliardi Koopman 1994 .

Distribution: New Britain and New Ireland (Bismarck Arch., Papua New Guinea).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – No Data: Limited Distribution. IUCN 2003 – Vulnerable as P. gilliardi .

Discussion: scapulatus species group. See Flannery (1995 b) and Bonaccorso (1998). Previously spelled gilliardi ; ammended to gilliardorum by Flannery (1995 b) following Article 31.1.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature ( International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999). Misspelled gailliardi by Koopman (1994).