Pteropus coxi (Large Samoan Flying Fox)

[sebbe67]

A very large flying fox with large teeth (P. coxi, n. sp.), is described from two skulls collected in Samoa in 1839–1841 during the U.S. Exploring Expedition; it too has not been collected since. This robust species resembles Pteropus samoensis and Pteropus anetianus of Vanuatu in craniodental conformation but is larger than other Polynesian Pteropus, and in some features it is ecomorphologically convergent on the Pacific monkey-faced bats (the pteropodid genera Pteralopex and Mirimiri). On the basis of eyewitness reports from the early 1980s, it is possible that this species survived until recent decades, or is still extant.

Source
Pacific Flying Foxes (Mammalia: Chiroptera): Two New Species of Pteropus from Samoa, Probably Extinct

www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/614.1

[Melanie]

common name: Large Samoan Flying Fox (Turvey et al. Holocene extinctions, 2009)

[another specialist]

Jun 30, 2009 13:55:05 GMT @sebbe67 said:

A very large flying fox with large teeth (P. coxi, n. sp.), is described from two skulls collected in Samoa in 1839–1841 during the U.S. Exploring Expedition; it too has not been collected since. This robust species resembles Pteropus samoensis and Pteropus anetianus of Vanuatu in craniodental conformation but is larger than other Polynesian Pteropus, and in some features it is ecomorphologically convergent on the Pacific monkey-faced bats (the pteropodid genera Pteralopex and Mirimiri). On the basis of eyewitness reports from the early 1980s, it is possible that this species survived until recent decades, or is still extant.

Source
Pacific Flying Foxes (Mammalia: Chiroptera): Two New Species of Pteropus from Samoa, Probably Extinct

www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/614.1

Got my copy from Lauren so if anyone what's a copy just message or email me.

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[sebbe67]

Hello Frank,

I would very much like to get a copy of this papper. Many thanks.

[another specialist]

On it way sebbe

[Melanie]

fulltext article online

si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/bitstream/10088/7870/1/vz_helgen_2009_N3646.pdf

[Sebbe]

This species is known only from the holotype and paratype, which were collected during the U.S. Exploring Expedition to the Samoan archipelago in 1839-1841. The expedition explored the islands of Tutuila, Upolu, Savai’i and, the Manua island group, but the precise location from which the specimens were collected is not known. The species is considered a Samoan endemic, but the historical distribution remains to be clarified through more research on Samoa. The species is thought to be extinct from Samoa now, as most encounters by field biologists in Samoa only cite observations being made of two congeneric flying foxes, Pteropus samoensis or P. tonganus. There has been some discussion that perhaps the species survived until recently (in the early 1980s) due to observations by botanist Paul Cox. It is possible that the species could persist in Samoa on the remote montane forests of Upolu and Savai’i, but this is largely speculative (Helgen et al. 2009).

www.iucnredlist.org/species/84931267/95642285#geographic-range