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
Pteropus capistratus
Peters 1876
Pteropus capistratus
Peters 1876
,
Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876: 316
.
Type Locality:
Papua New Guinea
. The type locality was initially given as
New Ireland
Isl., but this is clearly incorrect (see
Flannery and White, 1991
). The type locality is probably the Duke of York group or
New Britain
Isl.
Vernacular Names:
Bismark Masked Flying Fox
.
Subspecies:
:
Subspecies
Pteropus capistratus
subsp.
capistratus
Peters 1876
Subspecies
Pteropus capistratus
subsp.
ennisae
Flannery and White 1991
Distribution:
Bismarck Arch. (
Papua New Guinea
).
Conservation:
CITES
– Appendix II.
IUCN
/
SSC
Action Plan (1992) – No Data as
P. temmincki capistratus
.
IUCN
2003 –
Not
listed.
Discussion:
Formerly regarded as a subspecies of
temmincki
, but apparently distinct; see Flannery (1995
b
). See also
Flannery and White (1991)
and
Bonaccorso (1998)
.