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McCoy's blossom bat

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McCoy's blossom bat (Nesonycteris maccoyi) is a blossom bat of the family Pteropodidae that is found in the Solomon Islands, in forest. Tim Flannery described it in 1993. The Wikipedia list of pteropodids places it in the subfamily Macroglossusinae with the other blossom bats of the genus Nesonycteris, and gives its size as 8 to 10 centimetres in length with no tail and a forearm of 5 to 7 centimetres. The same list shows its IUCN status as not evaluated and its population trend as unknown. It has no article of its own on the English Wikipedia, so the list is the main source for this entry.

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Living or Extinct
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Child Taxon Of

Pteropodidae, Taxa
Source Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): GBIF species match of Nesonycteris maccoyi
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1. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): GBIF species 4832022: species profile of Nesonycteris maccoyi
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)speciesProfiles
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"extinct": false
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List of pteropodids (Wikipedia)
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): GBIF species match of Nesonycteris maccoyi
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
  • Child Taxon Of: Pteropodidae, species match, family
    "family": "Pteropodidae"
  • In Group: Bats (Chiroptera), genus match, order
    "order": "Chiroptera"
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