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Nendo Tube-nosed Fruit Bat
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Information
Common Name Santa Cruz Tube-nosed Fruit Bat
Range Santa Cruz Group of the Solomon Islands.
Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Chiroptera
Family Pteropodidae
Genus Nyctimene
Species Nyctimene sanctacrucis
Conservation Status
DDSpecies
Data Deficient

The Nendo tube-nosed fruit bat or the Santa Cruz tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene sanctacrucis), is a megabat from the Santa Cruz Group of the Solomon Islands, near the eastern limit of the distribution of tube-nosed fruit bats. It had tube-like nostrils and had a wingspan of about 40 cm.

The last record was from the island of Nendo in 1907. The only specimen was a female donated to the Australian Museum, Sydney, in 1892. It may have become extinct due to forest destruction.

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