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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderChiroptera
  5. ›familyPteropodidae
  6. ›genusPteropus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Lesser Flying Fox

Pteropus mahaganus Sanborn, 1931

Also calledKleiner Flugfuchs (deu) · Roussette de Sanborn (fra) · Rudawka mahagańska (pol) · Sanborn-Flughund (deu) · Volpe volante di Sanborn (ita) · Zorro Volador De Bougainville (spa) · bougainvillenlenkko (fin) · kaloň mahagonový (ces) · Махаганская летучая лисица (rus) · マハガンオオコウモリ (jpn) · 샌본날여우박쥐 (kor) · 작은날여우박쥐 (kor)

First described in: Sanborn, & Colin Campbell. (1931). Bats from Polynesia, Melanesia and Malaysia. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, Vol. 18, No. 2.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

conservation

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Vulnerable: Limited Distribution. IUCN 2003 – Vulnerable.

Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae

discussion

Discussion: scapulatus species group. See Flannery (1995 b) and Bonaccorso (1998).

Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae

distribution

Distribution: Bougainville Isl (Papua New Guinea); Ysabel Isl and Choiseul Isl (Solomon Isls).

Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae

distribution

DISTRIBUTION: Bougainville Isl.; Ysabel Isl. (Solomon Isis.).

Order Chiroptera

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5218657.