| Large Palau Flying Fox | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Pteropodidae |
| Genus: | Pteropus |
| Species: | P. pilosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pteropus pilosus (K. Andersen, 1908) |
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The Large Palau Flying Fox (Pteropus pilosus) is an extinct species of medium-sized megabats from the Palau Islands in Micronesia. It had brownish fur with long, silvery hairs on its belly, and a wingspan of about 60 cm. It probably became extinct around 1874; possibly due to overhunting. It is known from two specimens, one of which is in the Natural History Museum in London.