Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat

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Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat
feeding on Kapok (Ceiba pentandra) at night in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Chiroptera Family: Pteropodidae Genus: Cynopterus Species: C. sphinx
Binomial name
Cynopterus sphinx (Vahl, 1797)

The Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat or Short-nosed Indian Fruit Bat (Cynopterus sphinx) is a species of bat in the Pteropodidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.

[edit] Source

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

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feeding on Kapok (Ceiba pentandra) at night in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

feeding on Kapok (Ceiba pentandra) at night in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

feeding on Kapok (Ceiba pentandra) at night in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.