Paranyctimene
Genus of bats
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Paranyctimene is a genus of bats in the family Pteropodidae.[2][3][4][5] They are distributed in Indonesia[6]
| Paranyctimene | |
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| Paranyctimene raptor | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Pteropodidae |
| Subfamily: | Nyctimeninae |
| Genus: | Paranyctimene Tate, 1942[1] |
| Type species | |
| Paranyctimene raptor Tate, 1942 | |
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Taxonomy
The genus was proposed by George Henry Hamilton Tate in American Museum Novitates (1942), describing specimens obtained on the Archbold 1936-37 expedition to New Guinea. Resembling the genus Nyctimene, the tube-nosed bats, the taxon was reduced to a subgenus of that group in 2001.[7] However, the Mammal Species of the World demurred from this arrangement, pending analysis of the phylogeny of both groups, instead recognising the following taxa:[8]
- Paranyctimene
- Paranyctimene raptor (Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat), the type, first proposed in 1942
- Paranyctimene tenax (Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat) Bergmans, 2001[7]
- Paranyctimene tenax tenax
- Paranyctimene tenax marculus Bergmans, 2001
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