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Pteropus Brisson, 1762
Taxonomic Serial No.: 180032

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):
	Common Name(s):	flying foxes [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2020

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals
	Subclass	Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
	Infraclass	Eutheria Gill, 1872
	Order	Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 – morcego, quiróptero, bats
	Suborder	Yinpterochiroptera Springer, Teeling, Madsen, Stanhope and Jong, 2001
	Family	Pteropodidae Gray, 1821 – flying foxes, Old World fruit bats, megabats, non-echolocating bats
	Subfamily	Pteropodinae Gray, 1821 – Old World fruit bats
	Tribe	Pteropodini Gray, 1821
	Genus	Pteropus Brisson, 1762 – flying foxes
		Direct Children:
	Species	Pteropus admiralitatum Thomas, 1894 – Admiralty Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus aldabrensis True, 1893 – Aldabra Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus alecto Temminck, 1837 – Black Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus allenorum Helgen, Helgen and Wilson, 2009 – Small Samoan Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus anetianus (Gray, 1870) – Vanauatu flying fox, Vanuatu Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus aruensis Peters, 1867 – Aru Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus brunneus Dobson, 1878 – Dusky Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus caniceps Gray, 1870 – North Moluccan Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus capistratus Peters, 1876 – Bismark Masked Flying Fox, New Britain Masked Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus chrysoproctus Temminck, 1837 – Moluccan Flying Fox, South Moluccan Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus cognatus K. Andersen, 1908 – Makira Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus conspicillatus Gould, 1850 – Spectacled Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus coxi Helgen, Helgen and Wilson, 2009 – Large Samoan Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus dasymallus Temminck, 1825 – Ryukyu Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus ennisae Flannery and White, 1991 – New Ireland Masked Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus faunulus Miller, 1902 – Nicobar Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus fundatus Felten and Kock, 1972 – Banks Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus gilliardorum Van Deusen, 1969 – Gilliard's Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus griseus (E. Geoffroy, 1810) – Gray Flying Fox, Wallacean Gray Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus howensis Troughton, 1931 – Ontong Java Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus hypomelanus Temminck, 1853 – Variable Flying Fox, Island Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus keyensis Peters, 1867 – Kei Flying Fox, Kai Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus livingstonii Gray, 1866 – Comoro Black Flying Fox, Comoro Flying Fox, Livingstone's Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus lombocensis Dobson, 1878 – Lombok Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus lylei K. Andersen, 1908 – Lyle's Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus macrotis Peters, 1867 – Big-eared Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus mahaganus Sanborn, 1931 – Sanborn's Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus mariannus Desmarest, 1822 – Mariana Flying Fox, Mariana Fruit Bat, Marianas Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus medius Temminck, 1825 – Indian Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus melanopogon Peters, 1867 – Black-bearded Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus melanotus Blyth, 1863 – Black-eared Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus molossinus Temminck, 1853 – Ponape Flying Fox, Caroline Flying Fox, Pohnpei Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus neohibernicus Peters, 1876 – Great Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus niger (Kerr, 1792) – Greater Mascarene Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus nitendiensis Sanborn, 1930 – Temotu Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus ocularis Peters, 1867 – Ceram Flying Fox, Seram Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus ornatus Gray, 1870 – Ornate Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus pelagicus Kittlitz in Lutké, 1836 – Chuuk Flying Fox, Truk Flying Fox, Ruck Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus pelewensis K. Andersen, 1908 – Pelew Flying Fox, Palau Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus personatus Temminck, 1825 – Masked Flying Fox, Moluccan Masked Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus pilosus K. Andersen, 1908 – large Palau flying fox, Palau flying fox, Large Pelew Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus pohlei Stein, 1933 – Geelvink Bay Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck, 1825 – Gray-headed Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus pselaphon Lay, 1829 – Bonin Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus pumilus Miller, 1910 – Little Golden-mantled Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus rayneri Gray, 1870 – Solomons Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus rennelli Troughton, 1929 – Rennell Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus rodricensis Dobson, 1878 – Rodriguez Flying Fox, Rodrigues Fruit Bat, Rodrigues Island Flying Fox, Rodrigues Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus rufus E. Geoffroy, 1803 – Madagascan Flying Fox, Malagasy Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus samoensis Peale, 1848 – Samoa Flying Fox, Samoan Flying Fox, Common Samoan Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus scapulatus Peters, 1862 – Little Red Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus seychellensis A. Milne-Edwards, 1878 – Seychelles Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus speciosus K. Andersen, 1908 – Philippine Gray Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus subniger (Kerr, 1792) – Dark Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus temminckii Peters, 1867 – Temminck's Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus tokudae Tate, 1934 – Tokuda's Flying Fox, Guam Flying Fox, Little Mariana Fruit Bat
	Species	Pteropus tonganus Quoy and Gaimard, 1830 – Insular Flying Fox, Pacific Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus tuberculatus Peters, 1869 – Vanikoro Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus ualanus Peters, 1883 – Kosrae Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus vampyrus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Large Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus vetula Jouan, 1863 – New Caledonia Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus voeltzkowi Matschie, 1909 – Pemba Flying Fox
	Species	Pteropus woodfordi Thomas, 1888 – Dwarf Flying Fox

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Alfred L. Gardner
	Notes:	Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
	Reference for:	Pteropus

	Expert:	Don E. Wilson
	Notes:	Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108
	Reference for:	Pteropus

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	Checklist of CITES species: Index of CITES species, document (version 2013)
	Acquired:	2013
	Notes:	UNEP-WCMC (Comps.) 2013. Checklist of CITES species. CITES Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland, and UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Available online at http://checklist.cites.org/
	Reference for:	Pteropus

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Pteropus

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
	Publication Date:	1987
	Article/Chapter Title:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Resource Publication, no. 166
	Page(s):	79
	Publisher:	United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Pteropus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	2005
	Article/Chapter Title:	Order Chiroptera
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2
	Page(s):	312-529
	Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
	Publication Place:	Baltimore, Maryland, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-8018-8221-4
	Notes:	Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
	Reference for:	Pteropus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.
	Publication Date:	2019
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 9: Bats
	Page(s):	1008
	Publisher:	Lynx Edicions
	Publication Place:	Barcelona, Spain
	ISBN/ISSN:	978-84-16728190
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Pteropus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
	Page(s):	xviii + 1207
	Publisher:	Smithsonian Institution Press
	Publication Place:	Washington, DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	1-56098-217-9
	Notes:	Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
	Reference for:	Pteropus

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	Comments: The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in favor of rejecting Brisson (1762), but conserved several of the generic names including Pteropus (Opinion 1894, ICZN 1998). Formerly included arquatus and leucotis which were transferred to Acerodon by Musser et al. (1982a). Species groups follow Koopman (1994)
		CITES: Appendix II except Pteropus brunneus and the species included in Appendix I, per 2013 Checklist of CITES species: Index of CITES species published with amendments to the Appendices and changes in standard scientific nomenclature following the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Bangkok, 2013). For current status see CITES.org

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