Pteropus personatus Temminck 1825

Pteropus personatus Temminck 1825, Monogr. Mamm., Vol. 1: 189.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Molucca Isls, Ternate.

Vernacular Names: Moluccan Masked Flying Fox.

Distribution: North Molucca Isls (Halmahera and Obi Isl Groups), and Gag. Sulawesi records are erroneous; see Bergmans and Rozendaal (1988).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – No Data. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: personatus species group. See Flannery (1995 b).