Large Samoan flying fox
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Pteropus
Species:
†P. coxi
Binomial name
†Pteropus coxi
Helgen, Helgen, & Wilson, 2009

The large Samoan flying fox (Pteropus coxi) is a species of fruit-eating megabat whose type specimen was originally collected in Samoa in 1856, but was not identified as a new species until 2009. The only known specimen was collected by an American expedition to Samoa in 1838–1842. It was rediscovered by Smithsonian mammalogist Kristofer Helgen preserved in alcohol. It was the largest known bat from Polynesia. As the type specimen is dead, and no other examples of the species are known, it is believed to be extinct.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Tsang, S.M. (2020). "Pteropus coxi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020 e.T84931267A95642285. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T84931267A95642285.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Smithsonian scientist discovers two new bat species hiding in museum collections for more than 150 years" Archived 2011-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, Smithsonian Science, July 29, 2009


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