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Swift fruit bat

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Chiroptera

Scientific name
  
Thoopterus nigrescens

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Pteropodidae

Higher classification
  
Thoopterus

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Genus
  
Thoopterus Matschie, 1899

Similar
  
Small‑toothed fruit bat, Mindanao pygmy fruit bat, Black‑capped fruit bat, Fischer's pygmy fruit bat, Styloctenium

The swift fruit bat (Thoopterus nigrescens) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is the only described species within the genus Thoopterus, but it is likely that more than one species exists. Thoopterus is found in Indonesia on Sulawesi and neighboring islands.

Literature cited

  • Ruedas, L. 2008. Thoopterus nigrescens. In IUCN. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on October 27, 2011.
  • Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 312–529. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. 

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