Pteropus mariannus Desmarest, 1822

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

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scientific name	Pteropus mariannus Desmarest, 1822
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Pteropus mariannus Desmarest, 1822 View in CoL View at ENA . Mammalogie, in Encycl. Méth., 2(Suppl.):547.

TYPE LOCALITY: Marianna Isis, Guam ( USA) .

DISTRIBUTION: Mariana Isis and Caroline Isis (including Palau Isis), Ryukyu Isis ( Japan).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered in Guam as P. m. mariannus ; IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: keraudren, loochooensis, paganensis, pelewensis , ualanus , ulthiensis, vanikorensis, yapensis .

COMMENTS: Includes loochooensis, pelewensis , ualanus , and yapensis ; see Kuroda (1938). Corbet and Hill (1980:37-38) listed these forms as distinct species without comment; but see Yoshiyuki (1989), who treated loochooensis as a separate species. Probably includes vanikorensis, see Troughton (1930).

References

Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.

Kuroda, N. 1938. A list of the Japanese mammals. Privately published, Tokyo, 122 pp.

Troughton, E. L. G. 1930. A new species and subspecies of fruit-bats (Pteropus) from the Santa Cruz group. Records of the Australian Museum, 18: 1 - 4.