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Bougainville monkey faced bat

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Scientific name
  
Pteralopex anceps

Rank
  
Species

Higher classification
  
Pteralopex

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Nyctimene (tube-nosed fruit bats)
  
Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat (N. aello) Common tube-nosed fruit bat (N. albiventer) Pallas's tube-nosed bat (N. cephalotes) Dark tube-nosed fruit bat (N. celaeno) Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat (N. certans) Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat (N. cyclotis) Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat (N. draconilla) Keast's tube-nosed fruit bat (N. keasti) Island tube-nosed fruit bat (N. major) Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat (N. malaitensis) Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat (N. masalai) Lesser tube-nosed bat (N. minutus) Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat (N. rabori) Eastern tube-nosed Bat (N. robinsoni) Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat (N. vizcaccia)

Paranyctimene
  
Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat

Aethalops (Pygmy fruit bats)
  
Borneo fruit bat (A. aequalis) Pygmy fruit bat (A. alecto)

Alionycteris
  
Mindanao pygmy fruit bat (A. paucidentata)

Balionycteris
  
Spotted-winged fruit bat (B. maculata)

Chironax
  
Black-capped fruit bat (C. melanocephalus)

Similar
  
Guadalcanal monkey‑faced bat, Pteralopex, Greater monkey‑faced bat, New Georgian monkey‑f, Woodford's fruit bat

The Bougainville monkey-faced bat (Pteralopex anceps) is a megabat endemic to Bougainville Island and Choiseul Island in Melanesia. It inhabits mature forests in upland areas. The species is classified as Endangered by the IUCN.

References

Bougainville monkey-faced bat Wikipedia