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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

Dobsonia is a genus of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It contains the following 13 species: [1]

Megabat Family of relatively large flying mammals - fruit bats

Megabats constitute the family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats). They are also called fruit bats, Old World fruit bats, or, especially the genera Acerodon and Pteropus, flying foxes. Megabats are found in tropical and subtropical areas of Eurasia, Africa, and Oceania. Compared to insectivorous bats, fruit bats are relatively large, and with some exceptions, do not navigate by echolocation. They are herbivores and rely on their keen senses of sight and smell to locate food.

Genus Dobsonia

Andersens naked-backed fruit bat species of mammal

Andersen's naked-backed fruit bat or Andersen's bare-backed fruit bat is a large cave-dwelling species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Bismarck Archipelago including the Admiralty Islands in Papua New Guinea.

Beauforts naked-backed fruit bat species of mammal

Beaufort's naked-backed fruit bat is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. Its natural habitat is in caves.

Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat species of mammal

The Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat is a common and widespread species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Indonesia.

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