Manado fruit bat

The Manado fruit bat (Boneia bidens) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.

Manado fruit bat
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Pteropodidae
Subfamily:	Harpyionycterinae
Genus:	Boneia Jentink, 1879
Species:	B. bidens
Binomial name
Boneia bidens Jentink, 1879
Manado fruit bat range
Synonyms
Rousettus bidens

It is the only member of the genus Boneia. It was formerly classified in the genus Rousettus, but phylogenetic evidence supports them being distinct and belonging to completely different subfamilies: Rousettus belonging in Rousettinae, Boneia belonging in Harpyionycterinae.^[2]

It is endemic to Sulawesi island in Indonesia, including in North Sulawesi Province.^[3]).