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Linduan rousette

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Chiroptera

Genus
  
Rousettus

Higher classification
  
Rousettus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Pteropodidae

Scientific name
  
Rousettus linduensis

Rank
  
Species

Linduan rousette

Similar
  
Sulawesi rousette, Sulawesi harpy fruit bat, Borneo fruit bat, Hayman's dwarf epaulette

The Linduan rousette (Rousettus linduensis) is a species of megabat in the Rousettus genus of the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Indonesia and is known only from four specimens collected in the swamp forest of Lore Lindu National Park, in central Sulawesi. It was only described in 2003, the most recently described of the genus, Rousettus.

References

Linduan rousette Wikipedia