Red fruit bat
(Stenoderma rufum)
Description
Stenoderma rufum is a mammalian species described by the French author and zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1820.Stenoderma rufum is the only one in the genus Stenoderma,which is part of the bat leaf family.IUCN categorizes the species globally as vulnerable.
Taxonomic tree:
Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Mammalia
Order:Chiroptera
Family:Phyllostomidae
Genus:Stenoderma
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