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Balionycteris
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Balionycteris

The spotted-winged fruit bat, (Balionycteris maculata) is the smallest megabat in the world, and the only species in the genus Balionycteris. It inhabits forests in Indonesia and Malaysia.

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

Spotted-winged Fruit Bat

speciesBalionycteris maculata

Malayan Spotted-winged Fruit Bat

speciesBalionycteris seimundi

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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 40989.