| Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Pteropodidae |
| Genus: | Paranyctimene |
| Species: | P. tenax |
| Binomial name | |
| Paranyctimene tenax | |
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The steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat (Paranyctimene tenax) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in West Papua, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.
The species was first proposed as a subgeneric arrangement of Nyctimene , published as Nyctimene (Paranyctimene) tenax. [2] The epithet tenax, derived from the Latin for 'steadfast', was intended to describe the conservation work of Peter Nijhoff, whose retirement was announced when the new species was discovered. [2] The subspecific epithet marculus, derived from Latin, translates as 'little hammer' and the diminutive form of Marc Argeloo's name, a dedication to his collections of bats for the Amsterdam Zoological Museum. Two subspecies were recognised by Mammal Species of the World (2005). [3]
- Paranyctimene
- Paranyctimene raptor (Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat), the type, first proposed in 1942.
- Paranyctimene tenax Bergmans, 2001 [2] (Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat)
The species is larger than Paranyctimene raptor, with recorded forearm measurements of 51.0 to 54.9 millimetres, and the greatest length of the skull in a range of 25.2–27.2 mm for both subspecies. [2]
