Vespertilio niger Kerr, 1792
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Kerr, Robert. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or Zoological System, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus, Class I: Mammalia: containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young; being a translation of that part of the systema naturae, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettinghen, together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers, and illustrated with copperplates. A. Strahan, and T. Cadell | W. Creech, London | Edinburgh.: i-xii + 1-644 + 10 pls. + 30 unnumbered pages.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Chiroptera
- family
- Pteropodidae
- genus
- Pteropus
- species
- Pteropus niger
Name
- Homonyms
- Vespertilio niger Kerr, 1792
- Common names
- Mauritian flying fox in English