Talaud flying fox
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The Talaud flying fox ( Acerodon humilis ) is a flying fox of the genus Acerodon that is endemic to the Indonesian Talaud Islands . This species was discovered in 1897 and for a long time was only known from a few very old museum specimens until a living population was rediscovered in 1999. It is a small, brown species of Acerodon with round spots on the ears. The forearm length is 116 to 131 millimeters, the tarsus length 53.5 to 59.5 millimeters, the ear length 24 to 24.7 millimeters and the weight 214 to 307 grams.
Individual evidence
- ^ Simmons, NB 2005. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 312-529 in Wilson, DE & Reeder, DM (Eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vol., 2142 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4
- ^ A b Riley, J. 2002. The rediscovery of the Talaud Islands Flying Fox, Acerodon humilis Andersen, 1909, and notes on other fruit bats from the Sangihe and Talaud Islands, Indonesia (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Faunistic treatises, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 22 (25): 393-410.
- ^ Flannery, TF 1995. Mammals of the South-West Pacific & Moluccan Islands. Chatswood: Reed Books, 464 pp. ISBN 0-7301-0417-6
literature
- Knud Andersen: Catalog of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum (Second Edition) Volume 1: Megachiroptera , 1912. pp. 424-426
Web links
Commons : Talaud flying fox ( Acerodon humilis ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Acerodon humilis in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: Hutson, AM, Kingston, T. & slipway, K., 2008. Accessed on 16 August, 2009.