Javan tailless fruit bat

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Javan tailless fruit bat

Order : Chiroptera
Family : Pteropodidae
Subfamily : Pteropodinae
Species : Megaerops kusnotoi

 

The Javan tailless fruit bat is listed as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Namings for the Javan tailless fruit bat
A young / baby of a Javan tailless fruit bat is called a 'pup'. A Javan tailless fruit bat group is called a 'colony or cloud'.
Countries
Indonesia

Facts about the Javan tailless fruit bat

One mammal--the Javan tailless fruit bat (Megaerops kusnotoi)--is endemic to these montane forests. (Full text)

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