Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat

Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Pteropodidae
Genus:	Paranyctimene
Species:	P. tenax
Binomial name
Paranyctimene tenax Bergmans, 2001[2]
Range

The steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat (Paranyctimene tenax) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in West Papua, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.

The species was first proposed as a subgeneric arrangement of Nyctimene, published as Nyctimene (Paranyctimene) tenax.^[2] The epithet tenax, derived from the Latin for 'steadfast', was intended to describe the conservation work of Peter Nijhoff, whose retirement was announced when the new species was discovered.^[2] The subspecific epithet marculus, derived from Latin, translates as 'little hammer' and the diminutive form of Marc Argeloo's name, a dedication to his collections of bats for the Amsterdam Zoological Museum. Two subspecies were recognised by Mammal Species of the World (2005).^[3]

• Paranyctimene

• Paranyctimene raptor (Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat), the type, first proposed in 1942.
• Paranyctimene tenax Bergmans, 2001^[2] (Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat)

The species is larger than Paranyctimene raptor, with recorded forearm measurements of 51.0 to 54.9 millimetres, and the greatest length of the skull in a range of 25.2–27.2 mm for both subspecies. ^[2]

References

1. Armstrong, K.N. (2021). "Paranyctimene tenax". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T136836A22041117. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T136836A22041117.en. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
2. Bergmans, W. (2001). "Notes on distribution and taxonomy of australasian bats. I. Pteropodinae and Nyctimeninae (Mammalia, Megachiroptera, Pteropodidae)". Beaufortia. 51 (8): 119–152.
3. Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 312–529. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

• "Mammals described from the Papuan region between 1995 and 2010." [1]