Common Name
Family
Species Name
Endemic
IUCN Status
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name to be linked to the
corresponding Wikipedia Page
Insular Flying Fox
Pteropidae Pteropus tonganus
No
Least Concern
Large Flying Fox
Pteropodidae Pteropus vampyrus
No
Least Concern
Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat Emballonuridae Emballonura semicaudata No
Endangered
Humpback Whale
Balaenopteridae Megaptera novaeangliae
No
Vulnerable
Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale Ziphidae Mesoplodon
gingkodens
No
Data Deficient
Hector's Beaked Whale Ziphidae
Mesoplodon hectori
No
Data Deficient
Spinner Dolphin
Delphinidae
Stenella longirostris
No
Least Concern
Fraser's Dolphin Delphinidae
Lagenodelphis hosei
No
Data Deficient
Pygmy Killer Whale Delphinidae
Feresa attenuata
No
Data Deficient
Black Rat Muridae
Rattus rattus
No
Least Concern
Brown Rat
Muridae
Rattus norvegicus
No
Least Concern
Sources
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
Living National Treasures. 2011. Living National Treasures official website. Retrieved May 2011 from http://lntreasures.com/tonga.html
Living National Treasures. 2011. Living National Treasures official website. Retrieved May 2011 from http://lntreasures.com/tonga.html
Rinke, D., et al. 1993. Koe Malau. Retrieved May
2011 from http://www.tongaturismo.info/malau/index-e.htm
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. 2008.
Animal Diversity Web. Retrieved May 2011 from
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
Wilson, D. E., and D. M. Reeder (eds). 2005.
Mammal Species of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved May 2011
from
http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20070427043030/http://nmnhgoph.si.edu/msw/
World Wildlife Fund. 2011. World Wildlife Fund
official website. Retrieved May 2011 from http://www.worldwildlife.org/
Wikipedia pages for each species, which can be accessed by the common name of the species.
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