Acerodon Jourdan, 1837

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

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Acerodon Jourdan, 1837 . L'Echo du Monde Savant, 4, No. 275, p. 156.

TYPE SPECIES: Pteropus jubatus Eschscholtz, 1831 .

COMMENTS: Very closely related to and probably congeneric with Pteropus (see Musser et al., 1982a).

Musser, G. G., K. F. Koopman, and D. Califia. 1982 a. The Sulawesian Pteropus arquatus and P. argentatus are Acerodon celebensis; the Philippine P. leucotus is an Acerodon. Journal of Mammalogy, 63: 319 - 328.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Chiroptera
Family	Pteropodidae

Acerodon Jourdan, 1837

Karl F. Koopman 1993

1993

Acerodon

Jourdan 1837: 156

1837

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