Paranyctimene Tate 1942

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

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 raptor (Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat), the type, first proposed in 1942.
• Paranyctimene tenax Bergmans, 2001^[7] (Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat)

• Paranyctimene tenax tenax
• Paranyctimene tenax marculus Bergmans, 2001

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