Pteropus caniceps

Status and Conservation. CITES Appendix II. Classified as Vulnerable on The IUCN Red List. Population decline of the Northern Moluccan Flying Fox is suspected to have been more than 30 % over three generations due to hunting and habitat loss. Distribution is fragmented over several islands. Its reliance on tree crevices as roosting sites means logging and mining have great impact on populations. Logging and cultivation severely depleted forests in Northern Moluccas during World War II, and commercial logging intensified even more in the 1970 s.

Sumber: Pteropodidae

Descriptive notes. Head-body 213 mm (tailless), ear 23 - 30 mm, hindfoot 47 mm, forearm 188 - 205 mm; weight 860 - 900 g. Greatest lengths of skulls are 78 - 90 mm and tibias 83 - 85 mm. Head of the North Moluccan Flying Fox is brown on sides, with orange-chestnut to golden orange buffy crown extending between ears onto forehead. Bases of most hairs are golden. Ears are of moderate length, with rounded tips. Fur is generally short. Forearm and tibia are naked. Back is dark seal-brown down through rump, with distinct separation from chestnut-orange mantle and sprinkles of golden hairs mixed in. Chest is golden, and belly is buffy with flecks of light brown hairs. Calcar is reduced. Wing membranes arise close (c. 10 mm apart) along sides of spine. Index claw is present. Skull is typical pteropine but heavy and robust, with large orbits, crests, and postorbital processes and broad rostrum. Palate ridges: 5 + 5 + 3. Dentition is typical pteropine but heavy built and broad; cheekteeth have posterior ledges. Habitat. Old growth forest from sea level up to elevations of ¢. 1500 m. Habitat on Halmahera and its satellite islands is evergreen rainforest, with some swathes of semievergreen rainforest in the southern peninsula. Ternate, Tidore, and parts of Bacan are moist deciduous forest.

Sumber: Pteropodidae

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II. IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Not Threatened. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (lc).

Sumber: Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae

Distribution: Halmahera (Indonesia). Sula, Peleng, and Sangihe Isl records are erroneous, and a single Sulawesi record (obtained from a dealer) is dubious (Bergmans and Rozendaal, 1988; K. Helgen, pers. comm.; Koopman, 1993).

Sumber: Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae

DISTRIBUTION: Halmahera Isis, Sulawesi, and Sula Isis (Indonesia). The Sulawesi record is dubius. A Sangihe Isl record is erroneus.

Sumber: Order Chiroptera

DISTRIBUTION: Halmahera Isis.; Sangihe Isis.; Sulawesi; Sula Isis.

Sumber: Order Chiroptera