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--> FAMILY Pteropodidae
--> GENUS Pteropus
SPECIES Pteropus loochoensis
| Author: | Gray, 1870. | | Citation: | Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, British Museum: 106. | | Common Name: | Japanese Flying Fox | | Type Locality: | Japan, Okinawa, Liû-kiû Isls. | | Distribution: | Okinawa Isl, Ryûkyû Isls (Japan). | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II. IUCN/SSC Action Plan (1992) – Endangered: Limited Distribution as P. mariannus loochoensis. IUCN 2003 – Extinct. | | Comments: | mariannus species group. Often included in mariannus, but see Corbet and Hill (1980) and Yoshiyuki (1989). Reviewed by Yoshiyuki (1989). Flannery (1995b) treated loochoensis as a subspecies of mariannus without comment. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
keraudreni Fritze, 1894
loochooensis Fritze, 1894
luchuensis Seitz, 1892
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