Little Red Flying-fox

Taxobox
name = Little Red Flying-fox
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3


image_caption = Little Red Flying-foxes at Wellington Zoo
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Chiroptera
familia = Pteropodidae
genus = "Pteropus"
species = "P. scapulatus"
binomial = "Pteropus scapulatus"
binomial_authority = Peters, 1862
range_

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range_map_caption = Australian distribution of "P.scapulatus"The Little Red Flying-fox ("Pteropus scapulatus") is a small bat native to Australia. Its diet primarily consists of nectar and pollen of Eucalypt blossoms, the pollination of which it is largely responsible. The Little Red Flying-fox is nomadic, and can be found in large groups of up to a million individuals.

References

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External links

*ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Pteropus_scapulatus/ images and movies of the little red flying fox "(Pteropus scapulatus)"]
* [http://www.wellingtonzoo.com/animals/animals/mammals/fruitbat.html Wellington Zoo, Little Red Flying-Fox]