Wright's Happy Tube-nosed Fruit Bat

Nyctimene wrightae

Classification

Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae

Nyctimene is a genus of bats in the Pteropodidae family. Commonly known as tube-nosed fruit bats or yoda bats, they are found in the central Philippines, eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the northeast coast of Australia. Taxonomy The genus was described by Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen in 1797.

Distribution

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Sources and credits

DescriptionNyctimene (genus), Wikipedia contributors Safetywikidata

Wright's Happy Tube-nosed Fruit Bat

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