Pteralopex atrata Thomas, 1888:155
Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat, Cusp-toothed monkey-faced bat, Cusp-toothed fruit bat, Cusp-toothed flying fox
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pteralopex atrata atrata Thomas, 1888
Conservation Status
Last record: 1975
Rediscovered in late 2015
IUCN RedList status: Endangered
Distribution
Solomon Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Thomas, Oldfield. (1888). Diagnoses of six new species of mammals from the Solomon Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6(1): 155-158.
Other references:
Andersen, K. (1912). Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Vol. 1 (2 ed.). London: British Museum of Natural History. [pp. 432-442]
Flannery, Timothy F. (1995). Mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands. Comstock/Cornell, Ithaca, Ny, USA.
Helgen, Kristofer 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. and Hamilton, S. (2008). Pteralopex atrata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T18657A8504692. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T18657A8504692.en. Downloaded on 05 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).
Thomas, Оldfield. (1888). The mammals of the Solomon Islands, based upon the collections made by Mr C.M. Woodford during his second expedition to the archipelago. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1888: 470-484.
Parnaby, Harry 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.
Simmons, N. B. and Cirranello, A. L. (2023). Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. Version 1.3. Accessed on 06/18/2023.
https://australianmuseum.net.au/blogpost/amri-news/walking-in-the-footsteps-of-giants
https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/21940/pteralopex-atrata-guadalcanal-monkey-faced