Palau Flying Fox
Pteropus pelewensis K.Andersen, 1908
Also calledGroßer Palau-Flughund (deu) · Palau-Flughund (deu) · Roussette de Palau (fra) · Rudawka pelewska (pol) · Volpe volante di Palau (ita) · kaloň babelthuapský (ces) · パラオオオコウモリ (jpn) · 팔라우날여우박쥐 (kor)
First described in: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8 vol.2 p.364
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
conservation
Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Endangered: Limited Distribution as P. mariannus pelewensis. IUCN 2003 – Not listed.
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
discussion
Discussion: mariannus species group. Often treated as a subspecies of mariannus, but apparently distinct (Corbet and Hill, 1980; Flannery, 1995 b). See comments under mariannus.
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
materials_examined
Type Locality: Micronesia, Caroline Isls, Palau Isl (= Pelew Isls).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
activity
Activity patterns. The Palau Flying Fox is primarily crepuscular. It becomes active in late afternoon and feeds mainly at 16: 00 - 18: 30 h. Colonies are sometimes formed in the morning for a few hours. While foraging, farms and villages are visited, but there are no known roosts in human settlements.
Pteropodidae
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 pelewensis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5706984.