Pteropus loochoensis Gray, 1870:106
Okinawa flying fox, Japanese flying fox, Greater loochoo fruit bat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pteropus mariannus loochoensis Gray, 1870:106; keraudreni Fritze, 1894; loochooensis Fritze, 1894; luchuensis Seitz, 1892
Demonstrated to be a synonym of Pteropus mariannus by (Almeida et al. 2014).
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)
Last record: 1870 or before (1800's?); 1894 (Martin et al., 2023)
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Okinawa (=Nansei-Shoto), Japan?
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Two specimens are in the British Museum of Natural History. A third specimen was collected, but it's current whereabouts are unknown (Maeda, 2008).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gray, J. E. (1870). Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs and fruit eating bats in the collections of the British Museum. London: British Museum. 137 pp.
Other references:
Abe, H., Ishii, N., Ito, T., Kaneko, Y., Maeda, K., Miura, S. and Yoneda, M. 2005. A Guide to the Mammals of Japan. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, Japan.
Almeida, Francisca C. et al. (2014). Each flying fox on its own branch: A phylogenetic tree for Pteropus and related genera (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 77: 83-95.
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Maeda, K. (2008). Pteropus loochoensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 October 2011.
Martin, Thomas E., Bennett, Gareth C., Fairbairn, Andrew J. and Mooers, A. Ø. (2023). ‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications. Animal Conservation 26(1): 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12788 [Appendix S2 (1617 taxa not seen >10 years); Appendix S3 (562 taxa not seen >50 years)]
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.
Ministry of the Environment. 2007. The revised Japanese Red List.
Nowak, R.M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA and London, UK.
Simmons, N. B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. In: D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 312-529. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Yoshiyuki, M. (1989). A systematic study of the Japanese Chiroptera. Tokyo: National Science Museum. 242 pp.
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