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Thoopterus
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Thoopterus

The swift fruit bat (Thoopterus nigrescens) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is the only described species within the genus Thoopterus, but it is likely that more than one species exists. Thoopterus is found in Indonesia on Sulawesi and neighboring islands.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Swift Fruit Bat

speciesThoopterus nigrescens

Suhaniah's Swift Fruit Bat

speciesThoopterus suhaniahae

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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 40976.