Pteropus melanotus

E. Blyth, 1863

Black-eared Flying Fox

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Blyth, E. 1863. Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum Asiatic Society. Savielle & Cranenburgh, Calcutta, 187 pp.

Original name as described

Pteropus melanotus

Other common names

Blyth's Flying Fox · Christmas Island Flying Fox

Type material

ZSI 15643, ZSI 15644

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

"Nicobar Islands," India.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Andaman and Nicobar Islands · Indonesia · Christmas Island

Taxonomy notes

tentatively includes natalis, which is occasionally considered a distinct species, although P. melanotus as currently defined is likely a species complex

Taxonomy notes citation

Phalen, D. N., Hall, J., Ganesh, G., Hartigan, A., Smith, C., De Jong, C., ... & Rose, K. (2017). Genetic diversity and phylogeny of the Christmas Island flying fox (Pteropus melanotus natalis). Journal of Mammalogy, 98(2), 428-437.

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

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