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--> FAMILY Pteropodidae
--> GENUS Pteropus
SPECIES Pteropus conspicillatus
| Author: | Gould, 1849. | | Actual Date: | 1850 | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1849: 109. | | Common Name: | Spectacled Flying Fox | | Type Locality: | Australia, Queensland, Fitzroy Isl. | | Distribution: | N Moluccas (Indonesia); New Guinea and West Papuan Isls (Raja Ampat Isl, off NW coast of New Guinea); NE Queensland (Australia). | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II. IUCN/SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | conspicillatus species group. See Webb and Tideman (1995) for discussion of possible hybridization with alecto. Also see Flannery (1995a, b), Bonaccorso (1998), and Bergmans (2001). |
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