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Pteropus capistratus subsp. capistratus Peters 1876

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Pteropus capistratus subsp. capistratus Peters 1876

Pteropus capistratus subsp. 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.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae, pp. 313-350 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 336, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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References

  • Peters, W. C. H. 1876. Uber die Pelzrobbe von der Inseln St. Paul und Amsterdam. Monatsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1876: 315 - 316.
  • Flannery, T. F., and J. P. White. 1991. Animal translocation. Zoogeography of New Ireland mammals. National Geographic Research and Exploration, 7: 96 - 113.