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Taxon: Family Pteropodidae Gray, 1821 - Old World fruit bats (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation (Gray, 1821) Bonaparte, 1838
Original name Gray, 1821:299.
Subsequent rank 1838. Bonaparte, 1838: 111.

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Pteropodinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821

Variants

Different spellingPteropidae (Family) Gray, 1821

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namevleerhonden Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
kalongachtigen Ref: B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975

Vernacular Names (English)

Full nameOld World fruit bats
fruit bats Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
flying foxes Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
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