Pteropus conspicillatus Gould 1849

Pteropus conspicillatus Gould 1849, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1849: 109.

Type Locality: Australia, Queensland, Fitzroy Isl.

Vernacular Names: Spectacled Flying Fox.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Pteropus conspicillatus subsp. conspicillatus Gould 1849

Subspecies Pteropus conspicillatus subsp. chrysauchen Peters 1862

Distribution: N Moluccas (Indonesia); New Guinea and West Papuan Isls (Raja Ampat Isl, off NW coast of New Guinea); NE Queensland (Australia).

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

Discussion: conspicillatus species group. See Webb and Tideman (1995) for discussion of possible hybridization with alecto . Also see Flannery (1995 a, b), Bonaccorso (1998), and Bergmans (2001).