Ornate Flying Fox
Pteropus ornatus Gray, 1870
Also calledNeukaledonischer Flughund (deu) · Roussette Rousse (fra) · Roussette ornée (fra) · Roussette rousse, Roussette rouge (fra) · Rudawka ozdobna (pol) · Schmuckflughund (deu) · Volpe volante ornata (ita) · Zorro Volador De Las Islas De La Leal (spa) · kaloň novokaledonský (ces) · loyaultesaartenlenkko (fin) · Περίτεχνη Ιπτάμενη Αλεπού (ell) · витиеватая летучая лисица (rus) · ハレギオオコウモリ (jpn) · 麗狐蝠 (zho)
First described in: Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs, Fruit-eating Bats Brit. Mus. p.105
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
child_taxa
Subspecies:: Subspecies Pteropus ornatus subsp. ornatus Gray 1870 Subspecies Pteropus ornatus subsp. auratus K. Andersen 1909
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
conservation
Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Indeterminate. IUCN 2003 – Vulnerable.
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
discussion
Discussion: subniger species group. Includes auratus; see Felten (1964 b). Also see Sanborn and Nicholson (1950) and Flannery (1995 b).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
discussion
COMMENT: Includes auratus; see Felten, 1964, Senckenberg. Biol., 45: 678 - 680.
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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In the stacks
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Every page naming Pteropus ornatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5218684.