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Pteropus allenorum  Helgen, Helgen and Wilson, 2009
Taxonomic Serial No.: 947318

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Small Samoan Flying Fox [English]
  
       
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 – morcego, quiróptero, bats  
                                  SuborderYinpterochiroptera Springer, Teeling, Madsen, Stanhope and Jong, 2001  
                                     FamilyPteropodidae Gray, 1821 – flying foxes, Old World fruit bats, megabats, non-echolocating bats  
                                        SubfamilyPteropodinae Gray, 1821 – Old World fruit bats  
                                           TribePteropodini Gray, 1821  
                                              GenusPteropus Brisson, 1762 – flying foxes  
                                                 SpeciesPteropus allenorum Helgen, Helgen and Wilson, 2009 – Small Samoan Flying Fox  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Helgen, Kristofer M., Lauren E. Helgen, and Don E. Wilson   
  Publication Date: 2009   
  Article/Chapter Title: Pacific Flying Foxes (Mammalia: Chiroptera): two new species of Pteropus from Samoa, probably extinct   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Museum Novitates, no. 3646   
  Page(s): 1-37   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0003-0082   
  Notes: DOI: 10.1206/614.1; available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5965   
  Reference for: original description, Small Samoan Flying Fox [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.   
  Publication Date: 2019   
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  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   
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  Reference for: Pteropus allenorum   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Oceania  
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Probably extinct (Helgen, Helgen and Wilson, 2009)  
    Pteropus allenorum Helgen, Helgen and Wilson, 2009 was known from just two specimens collected in the mid-19th century and never recorded since; considered extinct (Wilson and Mittermeier, 2019)  
 

 

    


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