Dobsonia
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Genus of bats
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| Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia moluccensis) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Pteropodidae |
| Genus: | Dobsonia Palmer, 1898 |
| Type species | |
| Cephalotes peroni Geoffroy, 1810 | |
| Species | |
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Dobsonia is a genus of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.[1] It contains the following 14 species:[2]
- Andersen's naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia anderseni
- Beaufort's naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia beauforti
- Philippine bare-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia chapmani
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia crenulata
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia emersa
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia exoleta
- Solomon's naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia inermis
- New Guinea naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia magna[3]
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia minor
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia moluccensis
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia pannietensis (including subspecies D. pannietensis remota which is sometimes referred to as D. remota)
- Western naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia peroni
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia praedatrix
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia viridis
- ↑ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Nowak, Ronald M. Walker's Bats of the World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP. 1991.
- ↑ Simmons, N.B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 312–529 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0.
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