| Panay Giant Fruit Bat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Holotheria |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Pteropodidae |
| Subfamily: | Pteropodinae |
| Genus: | Acerodon |
| Species: | A. lucifer |
| Binomial name | |
| Acerodon lucifer Elliot, 1896 |
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The Panay Giant Fruit Bat (Acerodon lucifer) is a megabat from the Philippines that was declared extinct in 1996. Probable causes include anthropogenic destruction of forest habitat and/or overhunting of the species. Many appeared in camps during World War II.