Stripe Faced Fruit Bat

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Stripe Faced Fruit Bat

Scientific Name Styloctenium wallacei

Photo Taken At Plzen Zoo, Plzen, Czech Republic

IUCN Red List Status Near Threatened

Population

This species is generally rare, but can be locally abundant. Read More

Threats

This species is threatened by habitat loss due to logging and small-scale agriculture. It is probably threatened by hunting in some areas. Read More

Geographic Range

This species has been recorded from north, central, eastern, and south-eastern Sulawesi and the Togian Islands of Indonesia (Bergmans and Rozendaal 1988). The type locality for this species is Macassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Read More

Habitat

This species prefers primary forest up to 1,100 m asl, but has been found also in slightly disturbed forest (areas with understorey cleared for coffee and cocoa; Bergmans and Rozendaal 1988). Records of catch outside of this habitat are probably of an individual commuting between forest fragments. Read More

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RECENTLY ADDED SPECIES

Ruedas, L., Kingston, T. & Sinanga, U. 2010. Styloctenium wallacei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T21100A9245667. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-2.RLTS.T21100A9245667.en

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