Bare-backed rousette

Bare-backed rousette
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Subfamily: Pteropodinae
Genus: Rousettus
Species: R. spinalatus
Binomial name
Rousettus spinalatus
Bergmans & Hill, 1980[1][2]
Bare-backed rousette range

The bare-backed rousette (Rousettus spinalatus) is a species of megabat.[3] The species "roosts in dark caves and feed presumably on nectar and fruit. It range includes Sukau and Kuamut in Sabah; Niah and Bintulu in Sarawak".[4]

References

  1. Bergmans & Hill, 1980. Bulletin of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) Zool., 38: 95.
  2. Iucnredlist.org
  3. Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 ed.). JHU Press. ISBN 0801882214.
  4. (Payne et al. 1985).


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