Pteralopex flanneryi
K. M. Helgen, 2005
Greater Monkey-faced Fruit Bat
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Chiroptera |
| Suborder | : Pteropodiformes |
| Superfamily | : Pteropodoidea |
| Family | : Pteropodidae |
| Subfamily | : Pteropodinae |
| Tribe | : Pteralopini |
| Genus | : Pteralopex |
Species status
Authority citation
Helgen, K.M. 2005-11. Systematics of the Pacific monkey-faced bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), with a new species of Pteralopex and a new Fijian genus. Systematics and Biodiversity 3(4):433-453.
Authority publication link
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477200005001702Original name as described
Pteralopex flanneryi
Other common names
Flannery's Monkey-faced Fruit Bat · Greater Monkey-faced Bat
Type material
AM M.6282
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
"Buin District (06°50'S, 155°44'E), 10 miles [= 16 km] inland from the coast, altitude 50 m, Bougainville (Northern Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea)."
Biogeographic realm
Australasia
Country distribution
Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands
Taxonomy notes
recently described
Taxonomy notes citation
Helgen, K. M. (2005). Systematics of the Pacific monkey‐faced bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), with a new species of Pteralopex and a new Fijian genus. Systematics and Biodiversity, 3(4), 433-453.
IUCN Red List status
Critically Endangered
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