Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
313
350
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Pteralopex anceps
K. Andersen 1909
Pteralopex anceps
K. Andersen 1909
,
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 3: 266
.
Type Locality:
Papua New Guinea
,
Bougainville
Isl.
Vernacular Names:
Bougainville
Monkey-faced Fruit Bat
.
Distribution:
Buka,
Bougainville
Isls (
Papua New Guinea
); Choiseul Isl and Isabel Isl (Solomon Isls).
Conservation:
IUCN
/
SSC
Action Plan (1992) – Endangered: Limited Distribution.
IUCN
2003 – Critically Endangered.
Discussion:
Considered a subspecies of
atrata
by Phillips (1968), but clearly distinct; see
Hill and Beckon (1978)
Flannery (1991
b
, 1995
b
), and
Parnaby (2002
b
)
. See also
Bonaccorso (1998)
.