Dobsonia

Dobsonia
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]

Genus Dobsonia

• 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

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.