Paranyctimene is a genus of bats in the family Pteropodidae.[2][3][4][5] They are distributed in Indonesia[6]
Paranyctimene | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Pteropodidae |
Subfamily: | Nyctimeninae |
Genus: | Paranyctimene Tate, 1942[1] |
Type species | |
Paranyctimene raptor Tate, 1942
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Species | |
See Text |
The genus was proposed by George Henry Hamilton Tate in American Museum Novitates (1942), describing specimens obtained on the Archbold 1936-37 expedition to New Guinea. Resembling the genus Nyctimene, the tube-nosed bats, the taxon was reduced to a subgenus of that group in 2001.[7] However, the Mammal Species of the World demurred from this arrangement, pending analysis of the phylogeny of both groups, instead recognising the following taxa,[8]
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