Species profile—Pteropus alecto (black flying-fox)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Pteropodidae (Flying Foxes, Fruit Bats and Blossom-bats) → Pteropus alecto (black flying-fox)
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Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Pteropodidae (Flying Foxes, Fruit Bats and Blossom-bats)
- Scientific name
- Pteropus alecto Temminck, 1837
- Common name
- black flying-fox
- Type reference
- Temminck, C.J. (1837) Les cheiropteres frugivores. Additions aux vues generales sur l'ordre des cheiropteres revision de la momographie du genre Roussette et monographies des genres Pachysome, Macroglosse, Harpie et Cephalote. pp. 49-112 in Temminck, C.J. (1835-1841).Monographies de Mammalogies, ou description de quelques genres de mammiferes, dont les especes ont ete observees dans les differens musees de l'Europe. Leiden: C.C. van der Hoek Tom. 2.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 984
- Synonym(s)
- Pteropus gouldi
- Alternate name(s)
- Gouldi's fruit-bat
black fruit-bat - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Disease Vector
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Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=984.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
