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Commerson's roundleaf bat
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Commerson's roundleaf bat (Macronycteris commersoni), also known as Commerson's leaf-nosed bat,[1] is a species of bat endemic to Madagascar.[2] It is named after French naturalist Philibert Commerson (1727-1773).[3] Bat populations of Africa or São Tomé and Príncipe formerly considered part of this species are now classified separately as M. gigas, M. thomensis or M. vittata,[2] while one from Madagascar was split off to become M. cryptovalorona.[4] It was formerly placed in the genus Hipposideros, but moved to the resurrected Macronycteris in 2017 on the basis of molecular evidence.[5]
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Commerson's leaf-nosed bat | |
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Arboretum d'Antsokay | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Hipposideridae |
Genus: | Macronycteris |
Species: | M. commersoni |
Binomial name | |
Macronycteris commersoni (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1813)[1] | |
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