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Pteralopex
Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat (Pteralopex atrata)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Pteropodidae
Subfamily:	Pteropodinae
Genus:	Pteralopex Thomas, 1888
Type species
Pteralopex atrata Thomas, 1888
Species
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Pteralopex is a genus of large megabats in the family Pteropodidae. Species in this genus are commonly known as "monkey-faced bats". They are restricted to Solomon Islands rain forests in Melanesia, and all species are seriously threatened, being rated as either endangered or critically endangered by IUCN. Two species, P. taki and P. flanneryi, have been described since 2000.

Species

The Fijian monkey-faced bat, formerly placed in this genus, has recently been transferred to the monotypic Mirimiri.

• Bougainville monkey-faced bat, Pteralopex anceps
• Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat, Pteralopex atrata
• Greater monkey-faced bat, Pteralopex flanneryi
• Montane monkey-faced bat, Pteralopex pulchra
• New Georgian monkey-faced bat, Pteralopex taki

References

1. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. IUCN (2008). 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Accessed 2008-12-17.
3. ^ Helgen, K. M. (2005). Systematics of the Pacific monkey-faced bats (Chiroptera : Pteropodidae), with a new species of Pteraloplex and a new Fijian genus. Systematics and Biodiversity, 3(4):433-453.
4. Parnaby, H. E. (2002). A taxonomic review of the genus Pteralopex (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), the Monkey-faced Bats of the South-western Pacific. Australian Mammalogy. 23: 145-162.

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