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Short-nosed Fruit Bats
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Short-nosed Fruit Bats

Cynopterus

Cynopterus is a genus of megabats. The Cynopterine section is represented by 11 genera, five of which occur in Malaysia, namely, Chironx, Balionycteris, Penthetor, Dyacopterus and Cynopterus. 30 names for Cynopterus species have been proposed, but only 16 are taxonomically valid forms.

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 7 known species

Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat

speciesCynopterus brachyotis

Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat

speciesCynopterus sphinx

Peters’s Fruit Bat

speciesCynopterus luzoniensis

Minute Fruit Bat

speciesCynopterus minutus

Horsfield’s Fruit Bat

speciesCynopterus horsfieldii

Indonesian Short-nosed Fruit Bat

speciesCynopterus titthaecheilus

Nusa Tenggara Short-nosed Fruit Bat

speciesCynopterus nusatenggara

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 40789.