Subspecies Pteropus conspicillatus conspicillatus Gould, 1850

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pteropus conspicillatus Gould, J. 1850. On new species of Mammalia and birds from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1849: 109-112 Aves pl. 12 [ante June 1850; publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [438]] [109].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 50.7.20.56 ♂ skin, Fitzroy Is., QLD; BMNH 50.9.6.16 skull of BMNH 50.7.20.56, Fitzroy Is., QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, coastal, gregarious, mellivore, noctidiurnal, subtropical, volant.

History of changes