Name - Pteropus Brisson 1762

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:391313 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Pteropus

• Pteropus Lath.

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus,Higher taxon

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Case 2928. Regnum Animale..., Ed. 2 (M.J. Brisson, 1762): proposed rejection, with the conservation of the mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles, Lutra and Hyaena (Carnivora), Tapirus (Perissodactyla), Tragulus and Giraffa (Artiodactyla).
• Comments on the proposed conservation of some mammal generic names first published in Brisson's (1762) Regnum Animale.
• Opinion 1894. Regnum Animale..., Ed. 2 (M.J. Brisson, 1762): rejected for nomenclatural purposes, with the conservation of the mammalian generic names Philander (Marsupialia), Pteropus (Chiroptera), Glis, Cuniculus and Hydrochoerus (Rodentia), Meles, Lutra and Hyaena (Carnivora), Tapirus (Perissodactyla), Tragulus and Giraffa (Artiodactyla).
• The systematic position of Pteropus leucopterus and its bearing on the monophyly and relationships of Pteropus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae).
• A key to the bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of South Asia.

Search name in:

Sherborn Index Animalium

• Regnum animale, 1762 1762: 153. [Index Animalium Entry]

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