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Pteropus niger (Mauritian flying fox)

Mammalia - Chiroptera - Pteropodidae

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).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. vetulus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1792Vespertilio niger Kerr p. 90
1998Pteropus niger International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature p. 64

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
orderChiropteraBlumenbach 1779
suborderYinpterochiropteraKoopman 1984
familyPteropodidaeGray 1821
genusPteropus
speciesniger(Kerr 1792)

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