Authority citation: Helgen, K.M. 2005-11. Systematics of the Pacific monkey-faced bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), with a new species of Pteralopex and a new Fijian genus. Systematics and Biodiversity 3(4):433-453.
Authority publication link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477200005001702
Original name as described: Pteralopex flanneryi
Nominal names: flanneryi K. M. Helgen, 2005
Other common names: Flannery's Monkey-faced Fruit Bat|Greater Monkey-faced Bat
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Chiroptera -- Family: Pteropodidae -- Subfamily: Pteropodinae -- Tribe: Pteralopini
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: AM M.6282
Type locality: "Buin District (06°50'S, 155°44'E), 10 miles [= 16 km] inland from the coast, altitude 50 m, Bougainville (Northern Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea)."
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Papua New Guinea (PNG) | Solomon Islands (SLB)
Species Status: This species is currently living, it lives in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently accepted, and it is newly recognized since MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status: Critically endangered
Species-specific notes: recently described
Citation: Helgen, K. M. (2005). Systematics of the Pacific monkey‐faced bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), with a new species of Pteralopex and a new Fijian genus. Systematics and Biodiversity, 3(4), 433-453.
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