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Cynopterinae
Subfamily of bats From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The subfamily Cynopterinae ("flying dogs") comprises 24 species of pteropodid bats distributed exclusively in South and Southeast Asia.[1]
The subfamily contains the following genera:
- Aethalops – pygmy fruit bats
- Alionycteris
- Balionycteris
- Chironax
- Cynopterus – dog-faced fruit bats, flying dogs or short-nosed fruit bats
- Dyacopterus – Dayak fruit bats
- Haplonycteris
- Latidens
- Megaerops
- Otopteropus
- Penthetor
- Ptenochirus – musky fruit bats
- Sphaerias
- Thoopterus
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