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Ryukyu Flying Fox
Pteropus dasymallus
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Pteropodidae
- Genus
- Pteropus
- IUCN status
- VU
- Distribution
- Japan|Philippines|Taiwan
- Realm
- Palearctic
Other names: Daito Flying Fox|Erabu Flying Fox|Formosan Flying Fox|Taiwanese Flying Fox|Orii's Flying Fox|Yaeyama Flying Fox
About this species
Ryukyu Flying Fox (Pteropus dasymallus) is a fruit bat recorded in the Japan mammal catalogue. This concise entry identifies the accepted catalogue taxon without adding ecology that has not yet been verified from a species-level source (Mammal Diversity Database range record). Japan's national Red List records it as Critically endangered (Japan MOE Red List 2020).
Description: Wildlife of Japan guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com)
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