TheSmall Samoan flying fox,Pteropus allenorum, is anOld World fruit bat known from a single specimen that was probably collectedby H.C. Caldwell in April 1856at Apia,a harbor and settlement on theisland of Upolu,Western Samoa,West Polynesia. The species was described in 2009 based on the broken skull and poorly preserved skin of an unsexed subadult specimen discovered in 2006 at theAcademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia(Helgen et al. 2009).
This bat may once have been distributed across Samoa andadjacent archipelagos butis now probably extinct (Helgen et al. 2009).
The small Samoan flying fox (Pteropus allenorum) 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. Its wingspan was at least two feet, and it weighed around 8 oz. As the type specimen is dead, and no other examples of the species are known, it is believed to be extinct.[2][3]
The small Samoan flying fox (Pteropus allenorum) 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. Its wingspan was at least two feet, and it weighed around 8 oz. As the type specimen is dead, and no other examples of the species are known, it is believed to be extinct.
