Salim Ali's Fruit Bat
Latidens salimalii
- Endangered
- Card rarity: Epic
- Mammals
Salim Ali's fruit bat is a rare megabat species in the monotypic genus Latidens. It was first collected by Angus Hutton, a planter and naturalist in the High Wavy Mountains in the Western Ghats of Theni district, Tamil Nadu in South India in 1948. It was initially misidentified as a short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus) but later identified by Kitti Thonglongya as a new species and was named after Indian ornithologist Salim Ali in 1972.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Pteropodidae
- Genus
- Latidens