Pteropus pilosus

– Extinct

Taxonomy

Kingdom:	ANIMALIA
Phylum:	CHORDATA
Class:	MAMMALIA
Order:	CHIROPTERA
Family:	PTEROPODIDAE
Scientific Name:	Pteropus pilosus
Species Authority:	K. Andersen, 1908
Common Name/s:	LARGE PALAU FLYING FOX (Eng) PALAU FLYING-FOX (Eng) PALAU FRUIT BAT (Eng) ZORRO VOLADOR DE LAS ISLAS PALAU (Spa)

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EX ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Chiroptera Specialist Group

Justification:

Pteropus pilosus is known from only two specimens collected prior to 1874.

History:

1988	-	Extinct (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Extinct (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Extinct (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Regionally extinct:

Palau

Population

Population:

This species is known from only two specimens collected prior to 1874.

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

Threats

Threats:

The specific causes of the extinction of Pteropus pilosus are unknown. Local hunting of the bat may have been a major contributing factor.

Bibliography

Bibliography:

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:	Chiroptera Specialist Group 1996. Pteropus pilosus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 July 2008.
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