Suhaniah fruit bat
The Suhaniah fruit bat is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is native to Indonesia and was described in 2012.
Taxonomy
The Suhaniah fruit bat was described as a new species in 2012. The holotype had been collected in Lore Lindu National Park on the Indonesian island Sulawesi in 2000 by I.Maryanto and M. Yani. Before its description, the genus Thoopterus was believed to be monotypic, consisting only of the swift fruit bat. Scientists subsequently discovered that there was regional variation in the swift fruit bat: individuals in northern Sulawesi were smaller than those in southwest Sulawesi. The southwest Sulawesi population was split from T. nigrescens due to larger body size, skull size, and jaw size, and given the scientific name Thoopterus suhaniahae. The eponym for the species name suhaniahae is Suhaniah, the wife of Mohamad Yani.