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Pteropus sp. A
ORDER—CHIROPTERA
FAMILY—Pteropodidae
COMMON NAME—Mindoro
pallid flying fox.
DISTRIBUTION—Known
only from Mindoro Island (Heaney, Dans, & Crombie, unpubl. data).
HABITAT—Recorded only in disturbed lowland forest (Heaney, Dans,
& Crombie, unpubl. data).
STATUS—Known
only from patches of forest in the lowlands of Mindoro, which have undergone
extensive deforestation (see maps in Custodio et al., 1996; Oliver etal.,
1993a). Poulations certainly very small and fragmented. This species is
probably highly endangered.
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