Macroglossus minimus

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810)

Lesser Long-tongued Blossom Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Pteropodiformes
Superfamily : Pteropodoidea
Family : Pteropodidae
Subfamily : Macroglossusinae
Genus : Macroglossus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1810. Description des roussettes et des céphalotes, deux nouveaux genres de la famille des chauve-souris. Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 15:86-108.

Original name as described

Pteropus minimus

Other common names

Dagger-toothed Flower Bat · Dagger-toothed Long-nosed Fruit Bat · Dagger-toothed Long-tongued Blossom Bat · Lesser Long-nosed Fruit Bat · Lesser Long-tongued Fruit Bat · Lesser Long-tongued Nectar Bat · Northern Blossom Bat

Type material

lost (number not known)

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

Java, Indonesia.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya · Australasia

Country distribution

Thailand · Vietnam · Cambodia · Malaysia · Singapore · Indonesia · Brunei · Philippines · East Timor · Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands · Australia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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