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Big-eared Flying Fox
Pteropus macrotis Peters, 1867
Also calledGrofsohrflughund (deu) · Großohrflugfuchs (deu) · Roussette a grandes oreilles (fra) · Rudawka wielkoucha (pol) · Volpe volante dalle grandi orecchie (ita) · Zorro Volador De Orejas Grandes (spa) · arusaartenlenkko (fin) · kaloň velkouchý (ces) · Летучая лисица Ару (rus) · オオミミオオコウモリ (jpn) · 大狐蝠 (zho) · 큰귀날여우박쥐 (kor)
First described in: Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin vol.1867 p.327
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
child_taxa
Subspecies:: Subspecies Pteropus macrotis subsp. macrotis Peters 1867 Subspecies Pteropus macrotis subsp. epularius Ramsay 1878
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
conservation
Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN / SSC Old World Fruit Bat Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
discussion
Discussion: poliocephalus species group. See Flannery (1995 a, b), and Bonaccorso (1998).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
distribution
Distribution: New Guinea; Aru Isls (Indonesia); Boigu Isl (Australia).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5218667.