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Pteropus hypomelanus (variable flying fox)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The small flying fox, island flying fox or variable flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
View Wikipedia Record: Pteropus hypomelanus

Infraspecies

Pteropus hypomelanus annectens
Pteropus hypomelanus cagayanus
Pteropus hypomelanus canus
Pteropus hypomelanus condorensis
Pteropus hypomelanus enganus
Pteropus hypomelanus fretensis
Pteropus hypomelanus geminorum
Pteropus hypomelanus hypomelanus
Pteropus hypomelanus lepidus
Pteropus hypomelanus luteus
Pteropus hypomelanus macassaricus
Pteropus hypomelanus maris
Pteropus hypomelanus robinsoni
Pteropus hypomelanus satyrus
Pteropus hypomelanus simalurus
Pteropus hypomelanus tomesii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
15
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.88
EDGE Score: 1.77
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  450 grams
Birth Weight [2]  74 grams
Diet [3]  Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  100 %
Forages - Arboreal [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  1 year
Male Maturity [2]  1 year
Gestation [4]  5 months 6 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  20 years
Nocturnal [5]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  8 inches (20 cm)
Habitat Substrate [5]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Khao Laem Ya - Mu Ko Samet National Park Marine National Park II 31421 Thailand
Mu Ko Surin National Park Marine National Park II 39278 Thailand    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
Philippines Philippines No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Prey / Diet

Calophyllum inophyllum (Alexandrian laurel)[2]
Carica papaya (papaya)[2]
Cocus nucifera[2]
Mangifera indica (mango)[2]
Pouteria sapota (mamey sapote)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Providers

Shelter 
Pouteria sapota (mamey sapote)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Toxocara pteropodis <Unverified Name>[6]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Pteropus hypomelanus, Deborah P. Jones and Thomas H. Kunz, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 639, pp. 1–6 (2000)
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0