The Dusky Flying Fox also known as the Percy Island Flying Fox, is an extinct species of megabat

Megabat

Megabats constitute the suborder Megachiroptera, family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera . They are also called fruit bats, old world fruit bats, or flying foxes.-Description:...

 in the Pteropodidae family. It was endemic to Percy Island off the southeast coast of Mackay, Queensland

Mackay, Queensland

Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar....

 in the northeast corner of Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Only one specimen is known to exist. It was collected in 1859 and documented by Dobson in 1878. Since that record, no further documentation is known of this species.
Currently, the specimen is located at the British Museum of Natural History and was validated as a separate species in the late 20th century.

See also

• Bathouses.com
• Australian Museum online
• Environment Australia, 1999. The Action Plan for Australian Bats
• Andersen K. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Volume I: Megachiroptera. Second Edition. Johnson Reprint Company, London.
• Conder P. 1995. Dusky flying-fox Pteropus brunneus. Pp. 433–434 in R. Strahan (Ed.) The Mammals of Australia. Reed Books, Chatswood, NSW
• Strahan, R and Conder, P. 2007. Dictionary of Australian and New Guinean Mammals. Csiro Publishing, Victoria, Australia.