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Wallace's Stripe-faced Fruit Bat

Styloctenium wallacei

Classification

The Wallace's or Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat (Styloctenium wallacei) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Sulawesi and the nearby Togian Islands of Indonesia. Cave paintings resembling these bats have been found in Australia, where bats of this kind are not otherwise known.

Distribution

Adolph Bernhard Meyer from Abhandlungen und Berichte des Koenigl. Zoologischen und Anthropologisch Etnographischen Museums zu Dresden year 1896 - no.6 · CC0
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