Pteropus tuberculatus Peters, 1869:393
Vanikoro flying fox
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pteropus vanikorensis (in part); Acerodon vanikorensis (in part)
Conservation Status
Last record: 25 August 1926 or later
Rediscovered in 2014?
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
This species has been rediscovered twice.
Distribution
Vanikoro (=Vanikolo), Santa Cruz Group, Solomon Islands
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Peters, W. (1869). [url=http://ia700701.us.archive.org/29/items/monatsberichtede1869knig/monatsberichtede1869knig.pdf]Las Bemerkungen über neue oder weniger bekannte Flederthiere, besonders des Pariser Museums[/url]. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869: 391-406.
Other references:
Andersen, K. (1912). Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum, vol. I: Megachiroptera. London: British Museum (Natural History), ci+854 pp.
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.
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]
Flannery, Timothy F. (1995). Mammals of the South-west Pacific and Moluccan Islands. Comstock/Cornell, Ithaca, NY, 464 pp. [p. 297]
Lavery, T.H., Leary, T. & Pierce, R. 2020. Pteropus tuberculatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T18765A22088712. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T18765A22088712.en. Downloaded on 24 April 2021.
Leary, T., Hamilton, S. and James, R. (2008). Pteropus tuberculatus. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 22 March 2011.
Matschie, P. (1899). Die Fledermäuse des Berliner Museumsfür Naturkunde. 1. Lieferung. Die Megachiroptera des Berliner Museums für Naturkunde. Berlin: Georg Reimer, viii+102 pp.
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.
Sanborn, Colin Campbell. (1931). Bats from Polynesia, Melanesia, and Malaysia. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 18(2): 7-29.
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.
Troughton, Ellis Le G. (1927). Fixation of the habitat, and extended description, of Pteropus tuberculatus, Peters. Records of the Australian Museum 15(5): 355-359.
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