Notopteris
Genus of bats
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Pteropodidae |
Subfamily: | Macroglossinae Almeida, Simmons & Giannni, 2020 |
Genus: | Notopteris Gray, 1859 |
Type species | |
Notopteris macdonaldi Gray, 1859 | |
Species | |
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Notopteris (long-tailed blossom bat) is a genus of megabats in the family Pteropodidae,[1] and the sole member of the subfamily Notopterisinae.[2] It contains the following species:
- Long-tailed fruit bat, Notopteris macdonaldi (Fiji and Vanuatu)
- New Caledonia blossom bat, Notopteris neocaledonica (New Caledonia)
References
[edit]- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Almeida, F.; Giannini, N. P.; Simmons, N. B. (2020). "A Species-level Phylogeny of Old World Fruit Bats with a New Higher-level Classification of the Family Pteropodidae". American Museum Novitates. 3950: 22. doi:10.5531/sd.sp.39.
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