Pteropus Erxleben, 1777

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 146

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Pteropus Erxleben, 1777 View in CoL View at ENA . Syst. RegniAnim., p. 130.

TYPE SPECIES: Vespertilio vampirus niger Kerr, 1792 .

COMMENTS: Originally named Pteropus by Brisson, 1762, in Regnum Animale, which is not available ( Hopwood, 1947). Formerly included arquatus and leucotis which were transferred to Acerodon by Musser et al. (1982a).