Nyctimene Borkhausen 1797 (fruit bat)
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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
Ecology: volant herbivore-insectivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Nyctimene in the database
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