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The Guam flying fox (Pteropus tokudae), also known as the little Marianas fruit bat, is an extinct species of small megabat endemic to Guam in the Marianas Islands in Micronesia that was confirmed extinct due to hunting or habitat changes. [1] It was first recorded in 1931 and was observed roosting with the larger and much more common Mariana ...
The Mariana fruit bat (Pteropus mariannus), also known as the Mariana flying fox, and the fanihi in Chamorro, is a megabat found only in the Mariana Islands and Ulithi (an atoll in the Caroline Islands). [3] Habitat loss has driven it to endangered status, and it is listed as threatened by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Fruit bats, also known as flying foxes or megabats, ... Guam flying fox: P. tokudae Tate, 1934: g EX: Formerly Guam until 1968 – Insular flying fox. Subspecies: [13]
The endangered Mariana fruit bat or flying fox. The Ritidian Unit is at the far northern point of Guam and is the only unit open to the public. It was established in 1993, in response to the 1984 listing of six species as endangered, and was designated critical habitat in 2004 for three of these species: the Mariana fruit bat, the Guam Micronesian Kingfisher, and the Mariana crow.
Flying foxes are killed and sold for bushmeat in several countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Oceania, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Bangladesh, China, [89] Fiji, and Guam. [90] Flying fox consumption is particularly common in countries with low food security and lack of environmental regulation. [91]
A new tally after taxonomic revisions and the establishment of a population of Guam rail on Cocos Island, [16] indicates there are now 5 of 16 native terrestrial (non-migratory) birds that remain in the wild on Guam: the Micronesian starling, [17] yellow bittern [18] (not endemic), and three endangered birds (Guam rail, Mariana common moorhen ...
Family: Pteropodidae (flying foxes, Old World fruit bats) Subfamily: Pteropodinae. Genus: Pteropus. Mariana fruit bat, Pteropus mariannus EN; Guam flying fox, Pteropus tokudae EX; Family: Emballonuridae. Genus: Emballonura. Polynesian sheath-tailed bat, Emballonura semicaudata EN (extirpated from Guam)
The study also concluded that the closest relative of P. pelagicus is the Guam flying fox, based on morphology. [3] A 2014 study that used genetics also concluded that the Guam flying fox was the sister taxon to P. pelagicus. [5]