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Nyctimene albiventer

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Description

Nyctimene albiventer (Gray, 1863). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862:262 [1863].

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Molucca Isis, Morotai Isl.

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea, Molucca and Kei Isis, Solomon Isis, N Queensland (Australia), Bismarck Arch.

SYNONYMS: papuanus.

COMMENTS: Formerly included draconilla; see Hill (1983:132). Does not include bougainville, which Smith and Hood (1983) placed in vizcaccia. Includes papuanus, but see Peterson (1991).

Notes

Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 143-144, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060

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Scientific name authorship
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Pteropodidae
Genus
Nyctimene
Species
albiventer
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Nyctimene albiventer (Gray, 1863) sec. Koopman, 1993

References

  • Hill, J. E. 1983. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Indo-Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 43: 103 - 208.
  • Smith, J. D., and C. S. Hood. 1983. A new species of tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene) from the Bismark Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Occasional Papers, The Museum, Texas Tech University, 81: 1 - 14.
  • Peterson, R. L. 1991. Systematic variation in the megachiropteran tube-nosed bats Nyctimene cyclotis and N. certans. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 206: 26 - 41.