Greater Monkey-Faced Bat
Pteralopex flanneryi Helgan, 2005
Also calledFlannery-Affengesichtflughund (deu) · Roussette de Flannery (fra) · Skrzydłolis samotny (pol) · Volpe volante dal muso di scimmia maggiore (ita)
First described in: Helgen, Kristofer M. (2005). Systematics of the Pacific monkey-faced bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), with a new species of Pteralopex and a new Fijian genus. Systematics and Biodiversity, Vol. 3, No. 4.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Condition. Cranium missing both auditory rings, otherwise complete, loose upper left second post-canine tooth, missing lower left second post-canine tooth. Study skin with minor holes in wing membranes.
Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney
discussion
Comments. Type series of eight specimens, other paratypes are at the USNM and BBM.
Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney
distribution
Type locality. Buin District (6 ° 50 ' S 155 ° 44 ' E), southern Bougainville Island, North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea. The original description gives the locality of the holotype as “ Buin District (6 ° 50 ' S 155 ° 44 ' E), 10 miles inland from the coast, alt. 50 m ” but this might be a misattribution of data from a paratype.
Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney
materials_examined
Holotype. M. 6282 by original designation. Male adult, skull, study skin, collected by J. B. Poncelet, collection date not recorded in register; registered 9 March 1937. Locality given in register is “ Buin district ”.
Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5787449.