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Pteropus niger (Mauritian flying fox)
Taxonomy
Vespertilio niger was named by Kerr (1792). It is extant. It is the type species of Pteropus.
It was recombined as Pteropus niger by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1998).
It was recombined as Pteropus niger by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1998).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1792 | Vespertilio niger Kerr p. 90 |
| 1998 | Pteropus niger International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature p. 64 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Pteropus niger Kerr 1792 [Mauritian flying fox]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Simmons et al. 2008, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||