New Ireland masked flying fox

The New Ireland masked flying fox (Pteropus ennisae) is a megabat endemic to Papua New Guinea. Tim Flannery and J. P. White described it in 1991, regarding it as a subspecies of Temminck's flying fox, and the holotype was collected in 1988 on New Ireland by Flannery, Lester Seri, T. Heinsohn and Patricia Ennis. In 1995 Flannery treated it instead as a subspecies of the Bismarck masked flying fox, but a 2014 study found that the genetic distance between the two, 4.7 percent, together with several physical differences, justified raising it to species level. The species name honours Patricia Ennis, and the IUCN lists it as vulnerable.