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Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck 1825

Description

Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck 1825

Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck 1825, Monogr. Mamm., Vol. 1: 179.

Type Locality: Australia.

Vernacular Names: Gray-headed Flying Fox.

Distribution: E Australia, from S Queensland to Victoria.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: poliocephalus species group. See Webb and Tideman (1995) for discussion of cases of hybridization with alecto.

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 342, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Family
Pteropodidae
Genus
Pteropus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Temminck
Species
poliocephalus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck, 1825 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005