Biology:Brooks's dyak fruit bat

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Brooks's dyak fruit bat
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Dyacopterus
Species:
D. brooksi
Binomial name
Dyacopterus brooksi
(Thomas, 1920)
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Brooks's dyak fruit bat range

Brooks's dyak fruit bat (Dyacopterus brooksi) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae endemic to Sumatra.[1] It was formerly included as a subspecies of the dayak fruit bat.[2] It is named for Cecil Joslin Brooks, who collected the type specimen near Bencoolen and presented it to Oldfield Thomas.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q1763518 entry