Pteropus pselaphon

– Critically Endangered

Taxonomy

Kingdom:	ANIMALIA
Phylum:	CHORDATA
Class:	MAMMALIA
Order:	CHIROPTERA
Family:	PTEROPODIDAE
Scientific Name:	Pteropus pselaphon
Species Authority:	Lay, 1829
Common Name/s:	BONIN FLYING FOX (Eng) BONIN FRUIT BAT (Eng) ZORRO VOLADOR DE LAS ISLA BONIN (Spa)

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

CR B1+2ce ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

2000

Assessor/s:

Ishii, N.

Evaluator/s:

Hutson, A. & Ishii, N. (Chiroptera Specialist Group)

History:

1994	-	Vulnerable (Groombridge 1994)
1996	-	Vulnerable (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Geographic Range

Range Description:	Pteropus psephalon is known only from about five small and remote Japanese islands.
Countries:	Native: Japan (Kazan-retto, Ogasawara-shoto)

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial; Freshwater; Marine

List of Habitats:

1.4	Forest - Temperate

Threats

Threats:

The main threats to the species are deforestation and hunting.

List of Threats:

1.3.3	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Extraction - Wood (ongoing)
3	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) (ongoing)

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.

Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 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.

Nowak, R.M. (ed.) 1999. Walkers Mammals of the World. Sixth edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London.

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:	Ishii, N. 2000. Pteropus pselaphon. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 12 May 2008.
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