Paranyctimene

Paranyctimene
Paranyctimene raptor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Pteropodidae
Subfamily:	Nyctimeninae
Genus:	Paranyctimene Tate, 1942 [1]
Type species
Paranyctimene raptor Tate, 1942
Species
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Paranyctimene is a genus of bats in the family Pteropodidae. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} They are distributed in Indonesia ^[6]

Taxonomy

The genus was proposed by George Henry Hamilton Tate in American Museum Novitates (1942), describing specimens obtained on the Archbold 1936-37 expedition to New Guinea. Resembling the genus Nyctimene , the tube-nosed bats, the taxon was reduced to a subgenus of that group in 2001. ^[7] However, the Mammal Species of the World demurred from this arrangement, pending analysis of the phylogeny of both groups, instead recognising the following taxa, ^[8]

• Paranyctimene

• Paranyctimene raptor (Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat), the type, first proposed in 1942.
• Paranyctimene tenax Bergmans, 2001 ^[7] (Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat)

• Paranyctimene tenax tenax
• Paranyctimene tenax marculus Bergmans, 2001

References

1. Tate, G.H.H; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea 1936-1937) (1942). "A new genus and species of fruit bats, allied to Nyctimene". American Museum Novitates (1204): 1. hdl:2246/4765.
2. Annual Checklist :: Taxonomic tree Archived 2016-03-11 at the Wayback Machine . Catalogue of Life. Retrieved on 2015-6-21.
3. ION: Index to Organism Names. Organismnames.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-02.
4. ITIS Standard Report Page: Nyctimene. Itis.gov. Retrieved on 2010-11-02.
5. Paranyctimene - Encyclopedia of Life. Eol.org. Retrieved on 2010-11-02.
6. Taxonomy Browser. BOLD Systems (1999-02-22). Retrieved on 2010-11-02.
7. Bergmans, W. (2001). "Notes on distribution and taxonomy of australasian bats. I. Pteropodinae and Nyctimeninae (Mammalia, Megachiroptera, Pteropodidae)". Beaufortia. 51 (8): 119–152.
8. Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 312–529. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.