Pteralopex pulchra Flannery, 1991:125
Montane monkey-faced bat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 17 May 1990 (Flannery, 1995:242); 1990 (Fisher & Blomberg, 2012)
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:
Fisher, Diana O. and Blomberg, Simon P. (2012). Inferring Extinction of Mammals from Sighting Records, Threats, and Biological Traits. Conservation Biology 26(1): 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01797.x
Fisher, Diana O. and Humphreys, Aelys M. (2024). Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals. Biological Conservation 298: 110772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110772
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.
Lee, T. E., Fisher, D. O., Blomberg, S. P. and Wintle, B. A. (2017). Extinct or still out there? Disentangling influences on extinction and rediscovery helps to clarify the fate of species on the edge. Global Change Biology 23(2): 621-634. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13421
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.
Parnaby, Harry, Ingleby, Sandy and Divljan, Anja. (2017). Type specimens of non-fossil mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 69(5): 277-420. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653
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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