Acerodon humilis Andersen, 1909:24-25
Talaud fruit bat, Talaud acerodon, Talaud flying-fox, Talaud Islands flying fox
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: March 1897 (Flannery, 1995:187)
Rediscovered in 2001 or before
IUCN RedList status: Endangered
Distribution
Salebabu and Karekaleng, Talaud Islands, north-east of Sulawesi, Indonesia
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Andersen, K. (1909). Notes on the genus Acerodon, with a synopsis of its species and subspecies, and descriptions of four new forms. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London: (8) 3: 20-29.
Other references:
Andersen, K. (1912). Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collections of the British Museum. Vol. 1. Megachiroptera. London: British Museum.
Baillie, Jonathan and Groombridge, Brian. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 448 pp.
Feiler, A. (1990). On the mammals of the Sangihe and Talaud Islands. Zoologische Abhandlungen (Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden) 46: 75-94.
Fisher, Diana O. (2011a). 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, 464 pp. [p. 187]
Hutson, A. M., Kingston, T. and Helgen, K. (2008). Acerodon humilis. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 29 July 2013.
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).
Mickleburgh, Simon P., Hutson, Anthony M. and Racey, Paul A. (1992). Old World fruit bats. An action plan for their conservation. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. viii + 252 pp.
Riley, J. (2001). Mammals on the Sangihe and Talaud Islands, Indonesia, and the impact of hunting and habitat loss. Oryx 36: 288-296. [relevant citation?]
Riley, J. (2002a). Mammals on the Sangihe and Talaud Islands, Indonesia, and the impact of hunting and habitat loss. Oryx 36(3): 288-296.
Riley, J. (2002b). The rediscovery of Talaud Islands Flying Fox, Acerodon humilis Andersen, 1909, and notes on other fruit bats from the Sangihe and Talaud Islands, Indonesia (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Faunistische Abhandlungen (Dresden) 22(2): 393-410.
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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