Greater Musky Fruit Bat
Ptenochirus jagorii (Peters, 1861)
Also calledCynoptére de Jagor (fra) · GroRer Moschusflughund (deu)
First described in: Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin vol.1861 p.707
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: Sometimes misspelled jagorii (e. g., Corbet and Hill, 1992).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Mindanao, Luzon, Mindoro, Tablas and Negros Isis. (Philippines).
Order Chiroptera
activity
Activity patterns. Each night males and females leave their day roosts and visit at least two small (less than 1 ha) foraging areas. They spend most of their time near productive feeding areas and commute among them. The Greater Musky Fruit Bat frequently flies over water and roosts in tree cavities in primary forests.
Pteropodidae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Ptenochirus jagorii in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2432847.