Pteropus conspicillatus Gould 1849

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 313-350 : 336

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11340270
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scientific name	Pteropus conspicillatus Gould 1849
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Pteropus conspicillatus Gould 1849 View in CoL

Pteropus conspicillatus Gould 1849 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1849: 109.

Type Locality: Australia, Queensland, Fitzroy Isl.

Vernacular Names: Spectacled Flying Fox.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Pteropus conspicillatus subsp. conspicillatus Gould 1849

Subspecies Pteropus conspicillatus subsp. chrysauchen Peters 1862

Distribution: N Moluccas ( Indonesia); New Guinea and West Papuan Isls (Raja Ampat Isl, off NW coast of New Guinea); NE Queensland ( Australia).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: conspicillatus species group. See Webb and Tideman (1995) for discussion of possible hybridization with alecto . Also see Flannery (1995 a, b), Bonaccorso (1998), and Bergmans (2001).