Nesonycteris woodfordi

O. Thomas, 1887

Woodford's Blossom Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Pteropodiformes
Superfamily : Pteropodoidea
Family : Pteropodidae
Subfamily : Pteropodinae
Tribe : Melonycterini
Genus : Nesonycteris

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1887-02-01. Diagnoses of two new fruit-eating bats from the Solomon Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)19(110):147.

Original name as described

Nesonycteris woodfordi

Other common names

Woodford's Fruit Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1887.1.18.9

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Shortland and Fauro Islands, western part of Solomon group [= Islands]."

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands

Taxonomy notes

includes the name schouteni, which was initially considered a subspecies of N. fardoulisi; moved from Melonycteris to Nesonycteris.

Taxonomy notes citation

Almeida, F. C., Simmons, N. B., & Giannini, N. P. (2020). A Species-level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae. American Museum Novitates, 2020(3950), 1-24. · Lavery, T. H., DeCicco, L. H., Olson, K. V., Holland, P. S., & Moyle, R. G. (2023). Phylogeography of Solomon Islands blossom bats reflects oceanic divides and Pleistocene connections. Journal of Biogeography, 00, 1-12.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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