Nyctimene Borkhausen 1797 (fruit bat)

Mammalia - Chiroptera - Pteropodidae

Synonyms: Cephalotes Geoffroy 1810 [objective synonym], Cephalotis Geoffroy 1810 [objective synonym]

Parent taxon: Pteropodidae according to D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder 2005

See also Gray 1825 and Loveless and McBee 2017

Sister taxa: Eidolon, Notopteris, Propottininae, Pteropus, Rousettus, Turkanycteris

Subtaxa: Nyctimene albiventer Nyctimene major

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Ecology: volant herbivore-insectivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nyctimene in the database

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