Pteropus tonganus
Quoy & Gaimard, 1830
Pacific 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
in D. D'Urville, Voy. "Astrolabe", Zool. i: 74.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2064130Original name as described
Pteropus tonganus
Other common names
Insular Flying Fox · Tongan Flying Fox
Type material
MNHN-ZM-MO-1996-2121, MNHN ? A. 54 (= MNHN ? 754), MNHN ? A. 55 (= MNHN ? 775), MNHN ? A. 56 (= MNHN ? 755 B)
Type kind
syntypes
Type specimen URI
http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1996-2121Type locality
Tongatapu Island, Kingdom of Tonga.
Biogeographic realm
Australasia · Oceania (Biorealm)
Country distribution
Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands · Vanuatu · New Caledonia · Fiji · Wallis and Futuna · Samoa · American Samoa · Tonga · Niue · Cook Islands
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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