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Pteralopex anceps K. Andersen, 1909:266

Bougainville monkey-faced bat

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Pteralopex atrata anceps K. Anderson, 1909

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1968

Rediscovered in 1995

IUCN RedList status: Endangered

 

Distribution

Bougainville, Papua New Guinea & Choiseul, Solomon Islands

 

Biology

 

 

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References

Bowen-Jones, E., Abrutat, D., Markham, B. & Bowe, S. (1997) Flying foxes on Choiseul (Solomon Islands) - The need for conservation action. Oryx, 31, 209-217.

Fisher, Diana O. (2011). Trajectories from extinction: where are missing mammals rediscovered? Global Ecology & Biogeography 20: 415-425. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00624.x [Appendix S1]

Flannery, Timothy F. (1995(. Mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands. Comstock/Cornell, Ithaca, Ny, USA.

Helgen, K. M. 2005. Systematics of the Pacific monkey-faced bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), with a new species of Pteralopex and a new Fijian genus. Systematics and Biodiversity 3(4): 433-453.

Helgen, K., Hamilton, S., Leary, T. & Bonaccorso, F. 2008. Pteralopex anceps. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T18656A8504526. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T18656A8504526.en. Downloaded on 15 February 2017.

Laurie, Eleanor Mary Ord and Hill, John Edwards. (1954). List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands, 1758-1952. London: British Museum (Natural History).

Parnaby, H. E. 2002. A Taxonomic Review of the Genus Pteralopex (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), The Monkey-Faced Bats of the South-Western Pacific. Australian Mammalogy 23: 145-162.

Pikacha, P. 2008. Distribution, habitat preference, and conservation status of the endemic giant rats Solomys ponceleti and S. salebrosus on Choiseul Island, Solomon Islands. BP Conservation 2005 Final Report, Project no 700305. BP Conservation Leadership Programme.

Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]

Simmons, N.B. and A.L. Cirranello. 2023. Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. Version 1.3. Accessed on 06/18/2023.

 

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