Pteropus edulis É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810

(Figs 50; 163; 164)

Pteropus edulis É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810: 90 .

COMMON NAME. — Large Flying-fox.

CURRENT NAME. — Pteropus vampyrus edulis É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810.

See Simmons (2005: 346) and Giannini (2019: 158).

COLLECTOR/S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, contra É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1810: 91); Desmarest (1821: 109) and Girard (1856: 94) who mention both Péron and Lesueur as its collectors. COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Near Kupang Bay, West-Timor, Indonesia. COLLECTION DATE. — Between 6 May and 3 June 1803. SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — MNHN-ZM-MO-1996-2123 (Fig. 50), holotype, skin mount (Rode 1941: 229).

OTHER NUMBER/S. — Nouv. Cat. Gal. 17.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Illustrated by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur – Muséum d’Histoire naturelle du Havre, Inv. no. 80040 and 80041 (Figs 163; 164; two living animals) (Baglione & Crémière 2009: 360; Altmann 2012: 97, 99).