Pteropus giganteus (Briinnich, 1782)

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 147

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353060

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7289281

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scientific name

Pteropus giganteus (Briinnich, 1782)
status

 

Pteropus giganteus (Briinnich, 1782) View in CoL View at ENA . Dyrenes Historie, 1:45.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Bengal .

DISTRIBUTION: Maidive Isis, India (incl. Andaman Isis), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Burma, Tsinghai ( China). The Tsinghai record requires confirmation.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: ariel , assamensis, kelaarti, leucocephalus , médius .

COMMENTS: Includes ariel ; see Hill (1958:5, 6).

Hill, J. E. 1958. Some observations on the fauna of the Maldive Islands. Part II. Mammals. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 55: 3 - 10.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Pteropodidae

Genus

Pteropus