Paranyctimene
Sign in to saveParanyctimene is a genus of bats in the family Pteropodidae. They are distributed in Indonesia
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderChiroptera
- FamilyPteropodidae
Paranyctimene is een geslacht van vleermuizen uit de familie der vleerhonden dat voorkomt op Nieuw-Guinea en nabijgelegen eilanden.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 13
- Family
- Pteropodidae
- Collections
- AMNH, KU, BPBM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea
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Paranyctimene is a genus of bats in the family Pteropodidae. They are distributed in Indonesia
== 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. However, the Mammal Species of the World demurred from this arrangement, pending analysis of the phylogeny of both groups, instead recognising the following taxa: Paranyctimene Paranyctimene raptor (Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat), the type, first proposed in 1942 Paranyctimene tenax (Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat) Bergmans, 2001 Paranyctimene tenax tenax Paranyctimene tenax marculus Bergmans, 2001
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