Samoan Flying Fox
Pteropus samoensis Peale, 1848
Also calledGewohnlicher Samoa-Flughund (deu) · Roussette des Samoa (fra) · Roussette des ïles Samoa (fra) · Rudawka samoańska (pol) · Samoa-Flughund (deu) · Samoaflygehund (nob) · Samoavleerhond (nld) · Volpe volante delle Samoa (ita) · kaloň samojský (ces) · samoasaartenlenkko (fin) · Самоанская летучая лисица (rus) · ค้างคาวแม่ไก่ซามัว (tha) · サモアオオコウモリ (jpn) · 薩摩亞狐蝠 (zho)
First described in: Mammalia in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv. vol.8 p.20
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
child_taxa
Subspecies:: Subspecies Pteropus samoensis subsp. samoensis Peale 1848 Subspecies Pteropus samoensis subsp. nawaiensis Gray 1870
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
conservation
Conservation: CITES – Appendix I. IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) and IUCN 2003 – Vulnerable.
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
discussion
Discussion: samoensis species group. Includes nawaiensis; see Hill and Beckon (1978) and Banack (2001).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
discussion
COMMENTS: Includes nawaiensis; see Hill and Beckon (1978: 65).
Order Chiroptera
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Every page naming Pteropus samoensis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5218659.