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SPECIES Pteropus neohibernicus

Author:Peters, 1876.
Citation:Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876: 317.
Common Name:Great Flying Fox
Type Locality:Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Arch., New Ireland Isl.
Distribution:Bismarck Arch. and Admiralty Isls (Papua New Guinea), New Guinea, Misool and Gebi Isls, Gag Isl.
Status:CITES – Appendix II. IUCN/SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:neohibernicus species group. Includes sepikensis; see Koopman (1979). Also see Flannery (1995a, b) and Bonaccorso (1998).
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SUBSPECIES neohibernicus

SUBSPECIES hilli

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