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Gilliard's Flying Fox
Pteropus gilliardorum Van Deusen, 1969
Also calledGilliard-Flughund (deu) · Roussette des Gilliard (fra) · Zorro Volador De Gilliard (spa)
First described in: Van Deusen, & Hobart Merritt. (1969). Results of the 1958-1959 Gilliard New Britain Expedition. 5. A new species of Pteropus (Mammalia, Pteropodidae) from New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago. American Museum Novitates, No. 2371.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
conservation
Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – No Data: Limited Distribution. IUCN 2003 – Vulnerable as P. gilliardi.
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
discussion
Discussion: scapulatus species group. See Flannery (1995 b) and Bonaccorso (1998). Previously spelled gilliardi; ammended to gilliardorum by Flannery (1995 b) following Article 31.1.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999). Misspelled gailliardi by Koopman (1994).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
distribution
Distribution: New Britain and New Ireland (Bismarck Arch., Papua New Guinea).
Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae
materials_examined
Type Locality: Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Arch., West New Britain Province, Whiteman Mtns, Wild Dog Ridge, ca. 1,600 m.
Order Chiroptera - Family 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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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5707059.