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--> FAMILY Pteropodidae
--> GENUS Pteralopex
SPECIES Pteralopex anceps
| Author: | K. Andersen, 1909. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 3: 266. | | Common Name: | Bougainville Monkey-faced Fruit Bat | | Type Locality: | Papua New Guinea, Bougainville Isl. | | Distribution: | Buka, Bougainville Isls (Papua New Guinea); Choiseul Isl and Isabel Isl (Solomon Isls). | | Status: | IUCN/SSC Action Plan (1992) – Endangered: Limited Distribution. IUCN 2003 – Critically Endangered. | | Comments: | Considered a subspecies of atrata by Phillips (1968), but clearly distinct; see Hill and Beckon (1978) Flannery (1991b, 1995b), and Parnaby (2002b). See also Bonaccorso (1998). |
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