Paranyctimene
# Paranyctimene

Paranyctimene is a genus of bats in the family Pteropodidae. They are distributed in Indonesia

## Taxonomy

The genus was proposed by George Henry Hamilton Tate in American Museum Novitates (1942), describing specimens obtained on the Archbold 1936-37 expedition to New Guinea. Resembling the genus Nyctimene, the tube-nosed bats, the taxon was reduced to a subgenus of that group in 2001. However, the Mammal Species of the World demurred from this arrangement, pending analysis of the phylogeny of both groups, instead recognising the following taxa,

* Paranyctimene

   * Paranyctimene raptor (Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat), the type, first proposed in 1942.

   * Paranyctimene tenax Bergmans, 2001 (Steadfast tube-nosed fruit bat)

      * Paranyctimene tenax tenax

      * Paranyctimene tenax marculus Bergmans, 2001
