Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat

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Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Paranyctimene
Species:
P. raptor
Binomial name
Paranyctimene raptor
Tate, 1942 [2]
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Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat range

The lesser tube-nosed fruit bat or unstriped tube-nosed bat (Paranyctimene raptor) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. [1]

Taxonomy

First described by George H. H. Tate in 1942, the species was re-diagnosed when a sympatric species was described in 2001. The first description did not adequately exclude the new species, and specimens previously recorded as Paranyctimene raptor may have been misdiagnosed. The 2001 revision re-allocated specimens from the type locality, and did not recognise the taxon Paranyctimene except as a subgenus of Nyctimene . [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Bonaccorso, F.; Helgen, K. (2008). "Paranyctimene raptor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2008: e.T16174A5492793. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T16174A5492793.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. Bergmans, W. (2001). "Notes on distribution and taxonomy of australasian bats. I. Pteropodinae and Nyctimeninae (Mammalia, Megachiroptera, Pteropodidae)". Beaufortia. 51 (8): 119–152.