''Styloctenium'' (known as stripe-faced fruit bat or stripe-faced flying fox) is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of stripe-faced fruit
bat in the
Pteropodidae (megabat) family.
It comprises the following species:
*Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat, ''
Styloctenium mindorensis''
*Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat, ''
Styloctenium wallacei
The Wallace's or Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat (''Styloctenium wallacei'') is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Sulawesi and the nearby Togian Islands of Indonesia. Cave paintings resembling these bats have bee ...
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References
Bibliography
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*Esselstyn, J. A. 2007. "A new species of stripe-faced fruit bat (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: ''Styloctenium'') from the Philippines." ''Journal of Mammalogy'', 88:951-958
Bat genera
Taxa named by Paul Matschie
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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