'' Paranyctimene '' is a

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bat Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.''cheir'', "hand" and πτερόν''pteron'', "wing". With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most bi ...

s in the family Pteropodidae. They are distributed in Indonesia

Taxonomy

The genus was proposed by

George Henry Hamilton Tate George Henry Hamilton Tate (April 30, 1894 – December 24, 1953) was a British-born American zoologist and botanist, who worked as a mammalogist for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In his lifetime he wrote several book ...

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'' (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. However, the

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demurred from this arrangement, pending analysis of the phylogeny of both groups, instead recognising the following taxa, *''Paranyctimene'' :* '' Paranyctimene raptor'' (Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat), the type, first proposed in 1942. :* '' Paranyctimene tenax'' Bergmans, 2001 (Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat) ::* '' Paranyctimene tenax tenax'' ::* '' Paranyctimene tenax marculus'' Bergmans, 2001

References

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