| Small Samoan Flying Fox | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Suborder: | Megachiroptera |
| Family: | Pteropodidae |
| Genus: | Pteropus |
| Species: | P. allenorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Pteropus allenorum Helgen, Helgen, & Wilson, 2009 |
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Small Samoan Flying Fox (Pteropus allenorum) is a species of fruit eating megabat whose type specimen was originally collected in Samoa in 1856, but was not identified as a new species until 2009. Its wingspan was at least two feet, and it weighed approximately eight ounces. As the type specimen is dead, and no other examples of the species are known, it is believed to be extinct.[1]