Greenish naked-backed fruit bat

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Greenish naked-backed fruit bat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Dobsonia
Species:
D. viridis
Binomial name
Dobsonia viridis
Heude, 1896
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Greenish naked-backed fruit bat range

The greenish naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia viridis) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.

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Distribution

This species of Dobsonia is endemic to some of the northeastern Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia.

It is found on: the Kai Islands; the central and southern Molucca Islands − including Seram Island, Ambon Island, and Buru Island; and the Banda Islands.

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References

  1. Tsang, S.M. (2016). "Dobsonia viridis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T6780A22033412. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6780A22033412.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.