Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat

The dragon tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene draconilla) is a bat of the family Pteropodidae found on both sides of New Guinea. It is slightly smaller than but otherwise similar to Nyctimene albiventer, differing in its more profuse dark spotting on the wing membranes and smaller, shorter canines, and the similarity has caused possible misidentifications. Its records from Papua New Guinea are associated with freshwater swamps and rivers. Oldfield Thomas described it as a new species in 1922 from a holotype collected by Gerard Versteeg near the Lorentz River, noting its small size compared with other Nyctimene species. The list of pteropodids gives its IUCN status as data deficient.