This fruit bat is recorded from the Malay Peninsula, central Sumatra, and Borneo. HMW lists primary lowland dipterocarp forest below about 110 m as its habitat.
A conspicuous white fur collar covers the neck and upper chest in both sexes. HMW says the hairs are longer in males; it also describes a short muzzle and forward-diverging tubular nostrils.
HMW records the species in primary lowland dipterocarp forest below about 110 m. One bat was netted in the subcanopy near a fruiting Palaquium tree; this is a capture record, not evidence of a usual roost site.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.