Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat

Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Paranyctimene
Species: P. tenax
Binomial name
Paranyctimene tenax
Bergmans, 2001
Range

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.

References

  1. ↑ Bonaccorso, F.; Helgen, K. (2008). "Paranyctimene tenax". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T136836A4345411.
  • "Mammals described from the Papuan region between 1995 and 2010."
  • Wilson, Don E. and DeeAnn M. Reeder. (2005). Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference, Volume 1. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0.


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