Pteropus coxi Helgen, Helgen & Wilson, 2009:14
Large Samoan flying fox, Cox's flying fox
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Between 1838 and 1841
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Samoa
Biology
Hypodigm
Holotype: USNM 3791 ("probably male")
Type locality: "Samoan Isle"
Paratype: USNM 3790
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Helgen, Kristofer M, Helgen, Lauren E., and, Wilson, Don E. (2009). Pacific Flying Foxes (Mammalia: Chiroptera): Two New Species of Pteropus from Samoa, Probably Extinct. American Museum Novitates 3646: 1-37.
Other references:
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.
Tsang, S. M. (2020). Pteropus coxi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T84931267A95642285. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T84931267A95642285.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]
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