The Nendo or Santa Cruz tube-nosed fruit bat (''Nyctimene sanctacrucis'') is a megabat from the Santa Cruz Group of the Solomon Islands, near the eastern limit of the distribution of tube-nosed fruit bats. It has tube-like nostrils and a wingspan of about . The species is known from a single female specimen collected in the late 19th century and donated to the Australian Museum,

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, in 1892. It apparently was last seen on the island of Nendo in 1907. It has previously been treated as extinct but is currently classified as

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by the

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due to continuing concerns about the species' taxonomic validity.

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