Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals Subclass Theria Parker & Haswell, 1897 Order Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 - bats Family Pteropodidae Gray, 1821 - Old World fruit bats Genus Pteropus Brisson, 1762 - flying foxes Pteropus samoensis species group Pteropus samoensis Peale, 1848 - Samoa flying fox 1 [Pteropus samoensis samoensis] Peale, 1848 2 Pteropus samoensis nawaiensis Gray, 1870