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Nyctimene draconilla
dragon tube-nosed fruit bat
The dragon tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene draconilla) is known from a handful of specimens collected from few disjunct localities on either side of the Central Highlands.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 1, no restriction stated Class Mammalia Realm Papua-Melanesian Locality not specified in the source As IUCN records it Nyctimene draconilla Thomas, 1922
This species is one of 3,062 in a list of vertebrates the IUCN Red List records as Data Deficient or has never assessed, ranked by how narrowly restricted the published record says they are. The sentence above is the evidence the tier was read from, quoted from Matthew Richardson, Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the World (2023).
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