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Species profile—Syconycteris australis (eastern blossom bat)

Classification

Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Pteropodidae (Flying Foxes, Fruit Bats and Blossom-bats) → Syconycteris australis (eastern blossom bat)

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Species details

Kingdom
Animalia (animals)
Class
Mammalia (mammals)
Family
Pteropodidae (Flying Foxes, Fruit Bats and Blossom-bats)
Scientific name
Syconycteris australis (Peters, 1867)
Common name
eastern blossom bat
Type reference
Peters, W. (1867) Herpetologische Notizen. Mber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1867:13-37.
WildNet taxon ID
966
Alternate name(s)
Queensland blossom-bat
common blossom-bat
eastern blossom-bat
Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
Least concern
Conservation significant
No
Endemicity
Native
Pest status
Nil

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Data source

This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=966.

This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.

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Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Last updated
8 March 2022