Dobsonia

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Dobsonia
Dobsonia moluccensis - Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria - Genoa, Italy - DSC02537.JPG
Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia moluccensis)
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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]

Genus Dobsonia


References

  1. 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.
  2. Nowak, Ronald M. Walker's Bats of the World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP. 1991.
  3. 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.