Paranyctimene tenax
(Bergmans, 2001)
Steadfast Tube-nosed Fruit Bat
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Chiroptera |
| Suborder | : Pteropodiformes |
| Superfamily | : Pteropodoidea |
| Family | : Pteropodidae |
| Subfamily | : Nyctimeninae |
| Genus | : Paranyctimene |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005
Authority citation
Bergmans, W. 2001. Notes on distribution and taxonomy of Australasian bats. I. Pteropodinae and Nyctimeninae (Mammalia, Megachiroptera, Pteropodidae). Beaufortia 51(8):119-152.
Original name as described
Nyctimene (Paranyctimene) tenax
Type material
ZMA.MAM.25360.a, ZMA.MAM.25360.b
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/ZMA.MAM.25360.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/ZMA.MAM.25360.bType locality
"upstream of Anadea (about 07°36'S, 146°37'E), 32 km SSW of Wau, Morobe Province [Papua New Guinea], alt. 850 m."
Biogeographic realm
Australasia
Country distribution
Indonesia · Papua New Guinea
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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