Pteropus personatus

Temminck, 1825

Moluccan Masked 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

Temminck, C.J. 1825. Livraison 5. Pp. 157–204 in Temminck, C.J. 1827. Monographies de Mammalogie. G. Dufour et E. d'Ocagne, Paris, 268 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52681335

Original name as described

Pteropus personatus

Other common names

Masked Flying Fox · Masked Fruit Bat

Type material

RMNH.MAM.37846.a, RMNH.MAM.37846.b, RMNH.MAM.37849.a, RMNH.MAM.37849.b

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.37846.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.37846.b https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.37849.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.37849.b

Type locality

"l'île de Ternate [= Ternate Island]," Molucca Islands, Indonesia.

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Indonesia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004487

Country distribution map

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