Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat

Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Pteropodidae
Genus:	Nyctimene
Species:	N. malaitensis
Binomial name
	Nyctimene malaitensis; Phillips, 1968
	Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat range

The Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene malaitensis) is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic only to the islands of Malaita and Makira (formerly known as San Cristóbal) in the Solomon Islands.[1][2] The species occurs in primary tropical moist forest.[1]

References

Lavery, T.H. (2017). "Nyctimene malaitensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T14958A22008343.
Simmons, N. B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. In: D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 312-529. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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[IUCN-1] Lavery, T.H. (2017). "Nyctimene malaitensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T14958A22008343.

[2] Simmons, N. B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. In: D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 312-529. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA.