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Black-bellied Fruit Bat
Melonycteris melanops Dobson, 1877
Also calledMélonyctére a ventre noir (fra) · Schwarzbauch-Blitenflughund (deu) · Schwarzbauch-Blütenflughund (deu) · Solomonowiec czarnobrzuchy (pol) · mustavatsahekko (fin) · Темнобрюхий крылан (rus) · クロハラフルーツコウモリ (jpn)
First described in: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol.1877 p.119
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
conservation
Conservation: IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
discussion
Discussion: Subgenus Melonycteris. Reviewed by Flannery (1993 b); also see Flannery (1995 b) and Bonaccorso (1998).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
distribution
Distribution: Bismarck Arch.; a New Guinea record is highly questionable (Flannery, 1993 b).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
materials_examined
Type Locality: Given by Andersen (1912: 790) as " New Ireland, coast adjacent to Duke of York Isl. " (Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Arch.).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2432797.