Sao Tomé collared fruit bat
Order : Chiroptera
Family : Pteropodidae
Subfamily : Pteropodinae
Species : Myonycteris brachycephala
The Sao tomé collared fruit bat is listed as Endangered (EN), considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Namings for the Sao Tom
A young / baby of a Sao Tom is called a 'pup'. A Sao Tom group is called a 'colony or cloud'.Countries
Sao Tome and Principe
Facts about the Sao Tomé collared fruit bat
Myonycteris brachycephala is an endemic bat species with the only asymmetric dental formula amongst mammals the world over! (Full text)
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