Pteropus melanopogon Peters, 1867

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 148-149

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scientific name	Pteropus melanopogon Peters, 1867
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Pteropus melanopogon Peters, 1867 View in CoL View at ENA . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867:330.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Molucca Isis, Amboina .

DISTRIBUTION: Aru Isis, Kei Isis, Amboina, Buru, Seram, Banda Isis, Timor Laut, and adjacent islands ( Indonesia). A Sangihe Isl record is erroneous; see Bergmans and Rozendaal (1988:65).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: aruensis , chrysargyrus, fumigatus , keyensis , rubiginosus.

COMMENTS: Does not include sepikensis; see Koopman (1979:5). See comment under neohibernicus .

References

Bergmans, W., and F. G. Rozendaal. 1988. Notes on collections of fruit bats from Sulawesi and some off-lying Islands (Mammalia; Megachiroptera). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden), 248: 1 - 74.

Koopman, K. F. 1979. Zoogeography of mammals from islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea. American Museum Novitates, 2690: 1 - 17.