Yap flying fox
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Species: | P. yapensis
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Pteropus yapensis K. Andersen, 1908.
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Yap flying fox range |
The Yap flying fox (Pteropus yapensis) is a species of megabat in the Pteropus genus found on Yap Island.[2] The species is listed on CITES Appendix I, and is classified as "Vulnerable" due to a major decline due to commercial hunting in the 1970s, and ongoing subsistence harvest.[1]
References
- ^ a b Template:IUCN
- ^ D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2005: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
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