Keast's tube-nosed fruit bat

Keast's tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene keasti) is a megabat of the family Pteropodidae found on Babar, Tanimbar and the Kai Islands in Indonesia, named after Colin Keast. Like other Nyctimene it has prominent nostrils that splay out in opposite directions, and its fur differs between the sexes: males are notably darker and fawn-coloured, while females are mostly buff-yellow with a drab colour at the base of the hair. It was first described as a subspecies of Nyctimene albiventer in 1993, and a review of the systematics two years later raised the group to species level and distinguished island populations that had been described as Nyctimene cephalotes. The list of pteropodids gives its IUCN status as near threatened.