Pteropus loochoensis

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	CHIROPTERA	PTEROPODIDAE

Scientific Name:

Pteropus loochoensis

Species Authority:

Gray, 1870

Common Name/s:

English

–

Okinawa Flying-fox

Taxonomic Notes:

Some authors place this into synonymy under P. mariannus, for example Koopman (1993) and MacPhee and Fleming, 1999). Others treat it as a subspecies of the latter, while some give it full species status (Simmons 2005).

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Data Deficient ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s:

Maeda, K.

Reviewer/s:

Hutson, A.M.M., Racey, P.A. (Chiroptera Red List Authority) & Chanson, J. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)

Justification:
This species is listed as Data Deficient as the two known specimens are taxonomically uncertain and of unknown provenance. There is not enough information to assign this species to Extinct, which it was previously classified as. More work must be done on its taxonomy, and if validated, the actual native range of the species.

History:

2006	–	Data Deficient (IUCN 2006)
2000	–	Extinct
1996	–	Extinct (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)
1994	–	Extinct (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is known only from three records, all postulated to have been from Okinawa Island (=Nansei-Shoto), Japan in the 19th century (Abe 2005). There are two specimens in the British Natural History Museum, and the whereabouts or existence of the third specimen is unknown. The two known specimens have been speculated to have possibly come from Southeast Asia and not Okinawa, or possibly to have been vagrants on Okinawa (Abe 2005). Therefore, this species is taxonomically uncertain and the existing specimens are of unknown provenance.
Countries:	Presence uncertain: Japan (Nansei-shoto)
Range Map:	(click map to view full version)

Population [top]

Population:	Unknown. Known only from three individuals from over a hundred years ago.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Unknown.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Unknown.

Major Threat(s):

Unknown.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	This species is listed on Appendix I of CITES. There needs to be work to establish the taxonomic validity of this species. If established, there is a need to survey possible areas where the species may occur, including Okinawa and possibly other areas in Southeast Asia. It is listed as Data Deficient (DD) in the Japanese Red List.

Conservation Actions:

This species is listed on Appendix I of CITES. There needs to be work to establish the taxonomic validity of this species. If established, there is a need to survey possible areas where the species may occur, including Okinawa and possibly other areas in Southeast Asia. It is listed as Data Deficient (DD) in the Japanese Red List.

Citation:	Maeda, K. 2008. Pteropus loochoensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2012.
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