Comoro black flying fox
Pteropus livingstonii
Summary 3
Livingstone's fruit bat (Pteropus livingstonii), also called the Comoro flying fox, is a megabat in the genus Pteropus. It is an Old World fruit bat found only in the Comoros islands of the western Indian Ocean.
Literature 4
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Cheke, A.S., Dahl, J.F., 1981. The status of bats on western Indian Ocean islands, with special reference to Pteropus. Mammalia 45, 205-238.
Courts, S.E., 1997. Insectivory in captive Livingstone's and Rodrigues fruit bats Pteropus livingstonii and P. rodricensis (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae): A behavioural adaptation for obtaining protein. J. Zool. (Lond.) 242, 404-410.
Granek, E., 2002. Conservation of Pteropus livingstonii based on roost site habitat characteristics on Anjouan and Moheli, Comoros islands. Biol. Conservation 108, 93-100.
Lindhe Norberg, U.M., Brooke, A.P., Trewhella, W.J., 2000. Soaring and non-soaring bats of the family Pteropodidae (flying foxes, Pteropus spp.): Wing morphology and flight performance. J. Exp. Biol. 203, 651-664.
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Trewhella, W.J., Reason, P.F., Clark, K.M., Garrett, S.R.T., 1998. The current status of Livingstone's flying fox (Pteropus livingstonii) in the Federal Islamic Republic (RFI) of the Comores. Phelsuma 6, 32-40.
Trewhella, W.J., Reason, P.F., Davies, J.G., Wray, S., 1995. Observations on the timing of reproduction in the congeneric Comoro Island fruit bats, Pteropus livingstonii and P. seychellensis comorensis. J. Zool. (Lond.) 236, 327-331.
Trewhella, W.J., Rodriguez-Clark, K.M., Corp, N., Entwistle, A.C., Garrett, S.R.T., Granek, E.F., Lengel, K.L., Raboude, M.J., Reason, P.F., Sewall, B.J., 2005. Environmental education as a component of multidisciplinary conservation programs: Lessons from conservation initiatives for critically endangered fruit bats in the western Indian Ocean. Conserv. Biol. 19, 75-85.
Trewhella, W.J., Rodriguez-Clark, K.M., Davies, J.G., Reason, P.F., Wray, S., 2001. Sympatric fruit bat species (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in the Comoro Islands (Western Indian Ocean): Diurnality, feeding interactions and their conservation implications. Acta Chiropterologica 3, 135-147.
Fuentes y créditos
- (c) Ben Charles, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/65567051@N00/347068204
- Adrian Pingstone, sin restricciones conocidas de derechos (dominio publico), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bristol.zoo.livfruitbat.arp.jpg
- Adaptado por Jakob Fahr del trabajo de (c) Wikipedia, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteropus_livingstonii
- (c) Jakob Fahr, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-SA)
