Nyctimene keasti

D. J. Kitchener in D. J. Kitchener, Packer, & Maryanto, 1993

Keast's Tube-nosed Fruit Bat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Kitchener, D.J., Packer, W.C. and Maryanto, I. 1993. Taxonomic status of Nyctimene (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) from the Banda, Kai and Aru Islands, Maluku, Indonesia – implications for biogeography. Records of the Western Australian Museum 16(3):399-417.

Original name as described

Nyctimene albiventer keasti

Type material

MZB 15300

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Near Taman Anggrek, 12 km N.Tual, Pulau Dullah, closely associated with Pulan Kai Kecil, (5°38'S, 132°44'E) … at sea level," Moluccas, Indonesia.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya · Australasia

Country distribution

Indonesia · East Timor?

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

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