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Dark Flying Fox
Pteropus subniger (Kerr, 1792)
Also calledKalong Mauritius kecil (ind) · Kleiner Maskarenen-Flughund (deu) · Petit Renard volant des Mascareignes (fra) · Petit Renard volant des Mascareignes, Roussette à collet rouge (fra) · Rauchgrauer Flughund (deu) · Roussette à collet rouge (fra) · Rudawka maskareńska (pol) · Réunioni repülőkutya (hun) · Zorro Volador Oscuro De Mauricio (spa) · kaloň maskarénský (ces) · pikkumaskareenienlenkko (fin) · Черноватая летучая лисица (rus) · マスカリンオオコウモリ (jpn) · 馬斯克林狐蝠 (zho)
First described in: InLinnaeus, Anim. Kingdom vol.1 p.91
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
conservation
Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) and IUCN 2003 – Extinct.
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
discussion
Discussion: subniger species group. Reviewed by Bergmans (1990). Probably extinct, see Cheke and Dahl (1981).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
conservation
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Extinct; probably extinct, see Cheke and Dahl (1981).
Order Chiroptera
discussion
COMMENT: Probably extinct; see Cheke and Dahl, 1981, Mammalia, 45: 205 - 238.
Order Chiroptera
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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Every page naming Pteropus subniger in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5218682.