Swift fruit bat

Swift fruit bat
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Thoopterus
Species:
T. nigrescens
Binomial name
Thoopterus nigrescens
(Gray, 1870)
Swift fruit bat range
Synonyms
  • Cynopterus marginatus var. nigrescens Gray, 1870
  • Cynopterus nigrescens Gray, 1870
  • Cynopterus latidens Dobson, 1878

The swift fruit bat (Thoopterus nigrescens) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.

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