Percy Island Flying-fox

Scientific name: Pteropus brunneus
  • Updated
    04/12/20
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Fast Facts

  • Classification
    Genus
    Pteropus
    Species
    brunneus
    Family
    Pteropodidae
    Order
    Chiroptera
    Subclass
    Eutheria
    Subphylum
    Vertebrata
    Phylum
    Chordata
    Kingdom
    Animalia

Introduction

The Percy Island Flying-fox is known from a single specimen collected in 1859, and described in 1878. There have been no further records of this flying-fox.

Distribution

This map shows species occurrence observations from data recorded in the Atlas of Living Australia.