Bare-backed rousette
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Bare-backed rousette
| Bare-backed rousette | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Pteropodidae |
| Subfamily: | Pteropodinae |
| Genus: | Rousettus |
| Species: | R. spinalatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Rousettus spinalatus |
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| Bare-backed rousette range | |
The bare-backed rousette (Rousettus spinalatus) is a species of megabat.[1]
Distribution
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" (Payne et al. 1985).
References
- ^ Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 ed.). JHU Press. ISBN 0801882214.
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