Paranyctimene

<i>Paranyctimene</i>

Paranyctimene

Genus of bats

Paranyctimene is a genus of bats in the family Pteropodidae.[2][3][4][5] They are distributed in Indonesia[6]

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Taxonomy

The genus was proposed by George Henry Hamilton Tate in American Museum Novitates (1942), describing specimens obtained on the Archbold 1936-37 expedition to New Guinea. Resembling the genus Nyctimene, the tube-nosed bats, the taxon was reduced to a subgenus of that group in 2001.[7] However, the Mammal Species of the World demurred from this arrangement, pending analysis of the phylogeny of both groups, instead recognising the following taxa,[8]

  • Paranyctimene
  • Paranyctimene tenax tenax
  • Paranyctimene tenax marculus Bergmans, 2001

References

  1. [1]
    Tate, G.H.H; Archbold Expedition to New Guinea 1936-1937) (1942). "A new genus and species of fruit bats, allied to Nyctimene". American Museum Novitates (1204): 1. hdl:2246/4765.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. [2]
    Annual Checklist :: Taxonomic tree Archived 2016-03-11 at the Wayback Machine. Catalogue of Life. Retrieved on 2015-6-21.
  3. [3]
    ION: Index to Organism Names. Organismnames.com. Retrieved on 2010-11-02.
  4. [4]
    ITIS Standard Report Page: Nyctimene. Itis.gov. Retrieved on 2010-11-02.
  5. [5]
    Paranyctimene - Encyclopedia of Life. Eol.org. Retrieved on 2010-11-02.
  6. [6]
    Taxonomy Browser. BOLD Systems (1999-02-22). Retrieved on 2010-11-02.
  7. [7]
    Bergmans, W. (2001). "Notes on distribution and taxonomy of australasian bats. I. Pteropodinae and Nyctimeninae (Mammalia, Megachiroptera, Pteropodidae)". Beaufortia. 51 (8): 119–152.
  8. [8]
    Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 312–529. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.


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