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Pteropus niger (Kerr, 1792)
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Dataset
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GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
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Rank
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SPECIES
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Published in
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In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom vol.1 p.90
Classification
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kingdom
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Animalia
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phylum
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Chordata
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class
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Mammalia
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order
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Chiroptera
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family
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Pteropodidae
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genus
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Pteropus
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species
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Pteropus niger
Name
- Synonyms
- Vespertilio niger Kerr, 1792
- Vespertilio vampyrus niger Kerr, 1792
- Homonyms
- Pteropus niger (Kerr, 1792)
- Common names
- Black-Spined Fruit Bat in English
- Black-spined Flying Fox in English
- Greater Mascarene Flying Fox in English
- Greater Mascarene Flying Fox in English
- Greater Mascarene Flying Fox in English
- Greater Mascarene Flying Fox in English
- Greater Mascarene flying fox in English
- Maskarenen-Flughund in German
- Mauritian Flying Fox in English
- Mauritian flying fox in English
- Mauritius Fruit Bat in English
- Roussette des Mascareignes in French
- Zorro volador de las Islas Mascarenas in language.
- Greater Mascarene Flying Fox in English
- Black-Spined Fruit Bat in English
- Grande roussette des Mascareignes in French
- Mauritian Flying Fox in English
- Mauritius Fruit Bat in English
- Roussette noire in French
- Zorro Volador Negro de Mauricio in Spanish
Bibliographic References
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Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: Order Chiroptera. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 312-529.
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Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds., 2019: null. Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 9: Bats. 1008.
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Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
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Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole, 2000: null. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204.