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Pteropus livingstonii Gray, 1866:66

Comoro black flying fox, Comoro flying fox, Livingstone's fruit bat

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered

 

Distribution

Anjouan and Mohéli, Comoros, western Indian Ocean

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

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.

Cheke, A. S. & Dahl, J. F. (1981) The status of bats on western Indian Ocean islands, with special reference to Pteropus. Mammalia, 45, 205-238.

Fisher, Diana O. (2011). 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]

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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