Yap flying fox
Yap flying fox | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Pteropodidae |
Genus: | Pteropus |
Species: | P. yapensis |
Binomial name | |
Pteropus yapensis K. Andersen, 1908. | |
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Yap flying fox range |
The Yap flying fox (Pteropus yapensis) is a species of megabat in the Pteropus genus found on Yap Island.[2] The species is listed on CITES Appendix I, and is classified as "Vulnerable" due to a major decline due to commercial hunting in the 1970s, and ongoing subsistence harvest.[1]
References
- 1 2 Wiles, G.; Helgen, K. & Allison, A. (2008). "Pteropus yapensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 3.1 (3.1). International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
- ↑ D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2005: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
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