Pteropus amplexicaudatus É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810

Pteropus amplexicaudatus É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810: 96 .

COMMON NAME. — Geoffroy’s Rousette.

CURRENT NAME. — Rousettus amplexicaudatus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810).

See Simmons (2005: 347) and Giannini (2019: 85).

COLLECTOR/S. — Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, contra É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1810: 97); Desmarest (1821: 111); Girard (1856: 95) who mentioned 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. — No specimen identified in MNHN collection.

OTHER NUMBER/S. — Anc. Cat. Gal. 764A, Nouv. Cat. Gal. 79.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.