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Swift Fruit Bat

Thoopterus nigrescens

Classification

The swift fruit bat (Thoopterus nigrescens) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. Taxonomy The swift fruit bat was initially described in 1870 by British zoologist John Edward Gray. He placed it in the genus Cynopterus, with a name of Cynopterus marginatus var.

Distribution

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