Bougainville monkey-faced bat | |
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Illustration by Peter Schouten | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Pteropodidae |
Genus: | Pteralopex |
Species: | P. anceps
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Binomial name | |
Pteralopex anceps K. Andersen, 1909
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Bougainville Monkey-faced Bat range |
The Bougainville monkey-faced bat or Bougainville flying monkey (Pteralopex anceps) is a megabat endemic to Bougainville Island of Papua New Guinea and Choiseul Island of the Solomon Islands in Melanesia.[2] It inhabits mature forests in upland areas, within the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and Bougouriba Province.