The Franquet's epauletted fruit bat was first described by Robert F. Tomes in 1860 and classified as Epomophorus francqueti from a specimen in the French National Collection forwarded to it by a Dr Franquet of the French Imperial Navy.
Robert Fisher Tomes, English farmer and zoologist, was born here on 4 August 1823.
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