Vanikoro flying fox

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Vanikoro flying fox

Critically endangered, possibly extinct (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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P. tuberculatus
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Pteropus tuberculatus
Peters, 1869
Vanikoro flying fox range

The Vanikoro flying fox (Pteropus tuberculatus) is a species of flying fox in the Pteropodidae family. It is known only from a few specimens from Vanikolo in the Solomon Islands, with the last possibly collected before 1930 . It is probably extinct, as Vanikolo has been extensively logged, and surveys have failed to rediscover this species.[1]

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