| Bougainville monkey-faced bat | |
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| Illustration by Peter Schouten | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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.
- ^ Lavery, T.H. (2017). "Pteralopex anceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T18656A22071126. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T18656A22071126.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Bowen-Jones, E., Abrutat, D., Markham, B., & Bowe, S. (1997). Flying foxes on Choiseul (Solomon Islands)–the need for conservation action. Oryx, 31(3), 209-217.