Stripe-faced Fruit Bat | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Pteropodidae |
Genus: | Styloctenium |
Species: | S. wallacei |
Binomial name | |
Styloctenium wallacei (Gray, 1866) |
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Sulawesi Stripe-faced Fruit Bat range |
The Wallace's or Sulawesi Stripe-faced Fruit Bat (Styloctenium wallacei) is a species of megabat in the Pteropodidae family. It is endemic to Sulawesi. Cave paintings resembling these bats have been found in Australia, where bats of this kind are not otherwise known.[1]