Pteralopex pulchra Flannery, 1991:125
Montane monkey-faced bat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 17 May 1990 (Flannery, 1995:242)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Mount Makarakomburu (southern slopes), Guadacanal, Solomon Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Flannery, Timothy F. (1991). A New Species of Pteralopex (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) from Montane Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Records of the Australian Museum 43(2): 123-129.
Other references:
Flannery, Timothy F. (1995). Mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands. Comstock/Cornell, Ithaca, Ny, USA. [p. 242]
Helgen, Kristofer M. (2005). Systematics of the Pacific monkey-faced bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), with a new species of [i]Pteralopex[/i] and a new Fijian genus. Systematics and Biodiversity 3(4): 433-453.
Lavery, T. H. (2017). Pteralopex pulchra. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T18658A22074308. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T18658A22074308.en. Downloaded on 16 October 2017.
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.
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