Styloctenium (known as stripe-faced fruit bat or stripe-faced flying fox) is a genus of stripe-faced fruit bat in the Pteropodidae (megabat) family.[1] It comprises the following species:
- Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat, Styloctenium mindorensis
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat, Styloctenium wallacei
| Styloctenium | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Pteropodidae |
| Genus: | Styloctenium Matschie, 1899 |
| Type species | |
| Pteropus wallacei Gray, 1866 | |
| Species | |
References
edit- ↑ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
Bibliography
edit- "Styloctenium". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 September 2007.
- Esselstyn, J. A. 2007. "A new species of stripe-faced fruit bat (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Styloctenium) from the Philippines." Journal of Mammalogy, 88:951-958
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