New Georgian Monkey-faced Bat

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New Georgian Monkey-faced Bat
Conservation status
Not Evaluated
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Pteralopex
Species: P. taki
Binomial name
Pteralopex taki
(Parnaby, 2002)

The New Georgian Monkey-faced Bat (Pteralopex taki) is an Old World fruit bat endemic to Solomon Islands, more specifically New Georgia Island and Vangunu Island. Apparently locally extinct on Kolombangara Island. According to Parnaby it is critically endangered.[1]

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