Pteropus Brisson, 1762

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
GENUS: Published in
Regnum Animale, Ed. 2 p.13, 153

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Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Chordata: class
Mammalia: order
Chiroptera: family
Pteropodidae: genus
Pteropus

Name

Synonyms: Eunycteris Gray, 1866; Pharopus Bowdich, 1825; Pselaphon Gray, 1870; Reropus Hauch, 1827; Sericonycteris Matschie, 1899; Spectrum Lacepède, 1799
Homonyms: Pteropus Thunberg, 1815; Pteropus Brisson, 1762; Pteropus R.W.Ham, 2005; Pteropus Jennings, 1827
Common names: flying fox in English; flying foxes in English; flying foxes in English

Bibliographic References

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1894 Regnum Animale?, Ed. 2 (M. J. Brisson, 1762): rejected for Nomenciatural purposes, with the conservation of the Mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles, Lutra and Hyaena (Carnivora), Tapirus (Perissodactyla), Tragulus and Giraffa (Artiodactyla).Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55(1), 64-71 (1998)
Neave, S. A. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
Neave, S. A. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library].
Reg. Anim.
SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB
Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Order Chiroptera. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 312-529.
Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds., 2019: null. Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 9: Bats. 1008.
Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
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