Pteropus livingstonii

– Critically Endangered

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

CHIROPTERA

Family:

PTEROPODIDAE

Scientific Name:

Pteropus livingstonii

Species Authority:

Gray, 1866

Common Name/s:

English	—	COMORO BLACK FLYING FOX, LIVINGSTONE'S FLYING FOX
Spanish	—	ZORRO VOLADOR DE LIVINGSTON

Taxonomic Notes:

P. livingstonei was used on the 2000 Red List. CITES also uses P. livingstonei, and livingstonei should be the grammatically correct spelling. T. Hutson (Chiroptera Red List Authority) notes that the correct spelling should be livingstonii (also by Simmons in Wilson and Reeder 2005).

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

CR A4c ver 3.1 (2001)

Year Assessed:

2004

Assessor/s:

Mickleburgh, S., Hutson, A. & Bergmans, W. (GMA Africa Workshop)

Evaluator/s:

Hutson, A., Racey, P. & Mickleburgh, S. (Chiroptera Red List Authority)

Justification:

Decline of 80% over the next 10 years which has started and is continuing.

History:

1988	-	Endangered as P. livinstonei (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Endangered (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Endangered (Groombridge 1994)
1996	-	Critically Endangered (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Comoros

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

1.6	Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland

Threats

List of Threats:

1.1.1.2	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Agriculture - Crops - Small-holder farming (ongoing)
7.2	Natural disasters - Storms/flooding (ongoing)
9.9	Intrinsic factors - Restricted range (ongoing)

Conservation Actions

List of Conservation Actions:

2.1	Communication and Education - Formal education (in place)
2.2	Communication and Education - Awareness (in place)
5.4	Species-based actions - Recovery management (in place)
5.7.1	Species-based actions - Ex situ conservation actions - Captive breeding/Artificial propagation (in place)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Mickleburgh, S.P., Hutson, A.M. and Racey, P. (compilers) 1992. Old World Fruit Bats. An Action Plan for their Conservation. IUCN/SSC Chiroptera Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland Switzerland.

Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds). 1993. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.

Citation:	Mickleburgh, S., Hutson, A. & Bergmans, W. 2004. Pteropus livingstonii. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 July 2008.
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