Pteropus voeltzkowi

Matschie, 1909

Pemba Flying Fox

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera
Suborder: Yinpterochiroptera
Superfamily: Pteropodoidea
Family: Pteropodidae
Subfamily: Pteropodinae
Tribe: Pteropodini
Genus: Pteropus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Matschie, P. 1909. Eine Art der Gattung Pteropus von der Insel Pemba. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1909:482-486.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10332953

Original name as described

Pteropus (Spectrum) voeltzkowi

Type material

ZMB (no number given)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Fufuni, southern Pemba Island, Tanzania.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Tanzania

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004509

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 1 name and synonym.

Pteropus (Spectrum) voeltzkowi

Matschie, 1909

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

voeltzkowi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZMB (no number given)

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

"bei Fufuni in der Mitte der Südküste" [near Fufuni in the middle of the southern coast], Pemba Island, near Zanzibar

Type locality

Tanzania.

Authority page

486

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10332953

Authority publication

Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin

Name usages

Allen (1939:61, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2782091) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5450)
Hill (1971:575) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35024)
Corbet & Hill (1980:38) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:125) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Corbet & Hill (1991:43) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Koopman (1993:152) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
Koopman (1994:23) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
Happold & Happold (2013:286) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #18768) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #18768) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:155) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004509) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18768/22089205) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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