Taxonomy Profile: Pteropus tokudae (Tate 1934)

Pteropus tokudae: Taxonomy and Nomenclature
Kingdom:
Animalia
Taxonomic Rank:
Species
Synonym(s):
Common Name(s):
Tokuda's Flying Fox []
Guam Flying Fox []
Little Mariana Fruit Bat []
Taxonomic Status:
Current Standing:
valid
Data Quality Indicators:
Record Credibility Rating:
TWG standards met
Pteropus tokudae: Taxonomic Hierarchy
Kingdom : Animalia
animals |
Animal |
animaux |
Subkingdom : Bilateria
Infrakingdom : Deuterostomia
Phylum : Chordata
chordates |
cordado |
cordés |
Subphylum : Vertebrata
vertebrates |
vertebrado |
vertébrés |
Infradivision : Gnathostomata
Superclass : Tetrapoda
Class : Mammalia
mammals |
mamífero |
mammifères |
Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Eutheria
Order : Chiroptera
bats |
morcego |
quiróptero |
Family : Pteropodidae
flying foxes |
Old World fruit bats |
megabats |
non-echolocating bats |
Subfamily : Pteropodinae
Old World fruit bats |
Tribe : Pteropodini
Genus : Pteropus
flying foxes |
Species : Pteropus tokudae
Tokuda's Flying Fox |
Guam Flying Fox |
Little Mariana Fruit Bat |
Pteropus tokudae Direct Children(s):
Pteropus tokudae: References
Expert(s):
Expert:
Don E. Wilson
Notes:
Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Expert:
Alfred L. Gardner
Notes:
Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Source(s):
Source:
NODC Taxonomic Code
Acquired:
1996-07-29
Notes:
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Source:
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program-05/01
Acquired:
2001-05-01
Notes:
http://www.fws.gov/endangered/
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Source:
2002 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 07-Nov-2003
Acquired:
2003-10-15
Notes:
http://www.redlist.org/
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Source:
Checklist of CITES species: Index of CITES species
Acquired:
2013-10-30
Notes:
UNEP-WCMC (Comps.) 2013. Checklist of CITES species. CITES Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland, and UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Available online at http://checklist.cites.org/
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1987-01-01 / 1987-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Resource Publication, no. 166
Page(s):
79
Publisher:
United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
Publication Place:
Washington, D.C., USA
ISBN/ISSN:
/
Notes:
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2000-01-01 / 2000-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Common Names of Mammals of the World
Page(s):
xiv + 204
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-383-3/
Notes:
With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1984-08-27 / 1984-08-27
Article/Chapter Title:
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Determination of Endangered Status for Seven Birds and Two Bats of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Federal Register, vol. 49, no. 167
Page(s):
33881-33885
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/
Notes:
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Order Chiroptera
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2
Page(s):
312-529
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Tate, George Henry Hamilton
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1934-04-11 / 1934-04-11
Article/Chapter Title:
Bats from the Pacific islands, including a new fruit bat from Guam
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
American Museum Novitates, no. 713
Page(s):
1-3
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/
Notes:
Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/4551
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2019-01-01 / 2019-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 9: Bats
Page(s):
1008
Publisher:
Lynx Edicions
Publication Place:
Barcelona, Spain
ISBN/ISSN:
978-84-16728190/
Notes:
Reference for:
Pteropus tokudae
Pteropus tokudae: Geographic Information
Geographic Division:
Oceania
Jurisdiction/Origin:
Central Pacific Territories / Native
Pteropus tokudae: Comments
Comment:
US ESA: Listed Endangered, as published in Federal Register Volume 49, Number 167, Pages 33881 - 33885, August 27, 1984
Comment:
Status: CITES - Appendix II. U.S. ESA - Endangered. IUCN/SSC Action Plan (1992) - Extinct? IUCN 2003 - Extinct
Comment:
Comments: pselaphon species group. See Flannery (1995b)
Comment:
CITES: Appendix II under Pteropus, per 2013 Checklist of CITES species: Index of CITES species published with amendments to the Appendices and changes in standard scientific nomenclature following the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Bangkok, 2013). For current status see CITES.org
Comment:
"The 'Guam Flying Fox' (Pteropus tokudae) was described in 1934 and last recorded in 1967. [...] Hunting and introduction of the predatory brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) have been suggested as causes of its extinction"