Sulawesi Stripe-faced Fruit Bat

Stripe-faced Fruit Bat
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)
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]

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