Pteropus dasymallus

The Ryukyu Flying Fox is the only fruit eating bat unique to Taiwan's pterodactyl species. It is a typical arboreal bat that relies on sight and smell to search for food. It feeds mainly on the fruits of the genus Ficus. It does not use ultrasound to locate, but uses sight and smell to find food, and lives in trees rather than dark caves. Due to its rarity, it is protected in Japan and Taiwan. This species is found in the Ryukyu Islands.

Chirochida is divided into microbatina and Macrobatina. Microbatina members, commonly known as bats, use echolocation and mainly prey on insects. There is only one family in the suborder, the Pteropteridae, which includes 173 species in 42 genera and do not use echolocation and mainly eat fruit, so they are called fruit bats. Among the 42 genera of the Flying Fox family, there is a single genus, consisting of 59 species, known as flying foxes or flying foxes.

To date, 11 species of fruit bats (4 of which belong to the genus Pteropus) have been recorded in China: the Brown, long-tailed, Ryukyu, Thai, Malay Great, Indian Great, canine, short-eared, ball, Great long-tongue, and ANSI long-tongue bats.

It is listed in the Red List of Biodiversity of China and assessed as endangered EN.

Distribution from Kyushu Island, Kagoshima south of the small island group (such as Baodao, Nakanoshima, etc.), Ryukyu Islands, North and South Daito Island and Yaeyama Islands, through China's Taiwan Island (sporadic individuals), Kameyama Island and Green Island, south to the small island group under the northern Philippines (such as Bataan Island, etc.). There are five known subspecies of this species, including the Flying Fox Nagarabe (), the Flying Fox Zeiki (), and the Flying Fox Nagarabe (), which inhabit the northern Ryukyu Islands. Flying foxes (