Wildlifeof Japan
Ryukyu Flying Fox
Bats
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Pteropus dasymallus
Rare visitor: recorded only occasionally in this country
Ryukyu Flying Fox (Pteropus dasymallus) is a fruit bat recorded in the Japan mammal catalogue. This concise entry identifies the accepted catalogue taxon without adding ecology that has not yet been verified from a species-level source (Mammal Diversity Database range record). Japan's national Red List records it as Critically endangered (Japan MOE Red List 2020).