Livingstone's fruit bat
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| phylum | Chordata | The Livingstone's flying fox ore Livingstone's fruit bat (Pteropus livingstonii), also called the Comoro flying fox, is a megabat in the genus Pteropus. It is an Old World fruit bat found only in the Anjouan and Mohéli islands in the Union of the Comoros in the western Indian Ocean. As of 2003, the total population was estimated at 1,200 individuals. Other threats to the bats' survival include storms, hunting, and their struggles to readapt to new habitats.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Chiroptera | |
| family | Pteropodidae | |
| genus | Pteropus | |
| species | P. livingstonii |
