Dragon Tube-nosed Fruit Bat

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Dragon Tube-nosed Fruit Bat
Conservation status
Vulnerable
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Chiroptera Family: Pteropodidae Genus: Nyctimene Species: N. draconilla
Binomial name
Nyctimene draconilla Thomas, 1922

The Dragon Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (Nyctimene draconilla) is a species of bat in the Pteropodidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. In other words it is endemic to the Island of New Guinea. It is a monotypic species and is slightly smaller and very similar in appearance to N. albiventer, differing by having more profuse, dark spotting on it's wing membranes, and smaller shorter canines. The records of this species from Papua New Guinea are associated with freshwater swamps and rivers.

[edit] Source

• Chiroptera Specialist Group 1996. Nyctimene draconilla. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 July 2007.

• Bonaccorso, F. J. 1998. Bats of Papua New Guinea. Conservation International, Washington, D.C.