''Dobsonia'' is a genus of
megabat
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. They are the only member of the su ...
in the family
Pteropodidae. It contains the following 13 species:
[Nowak, Ronald M. Walker's Bats of the World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP. 1991.]
Genus ''Dobsonia''
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Andersen's naked-backed fruit bat
Andersen's naked-backed fruit bat or Andersen's bare-backed fruit bat (''Dobsonia anderseni'') is a large cave-dwelling species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Bismarck Archipelago including the Admiralty Islands in Pap ...
, ''Dobsonia anderseni''
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Beaufort's naked-backed fruit bat
Beaufort's naked-backed fruit bat (''Dobsonia beauforti'') is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It roosts in caves.
Taxonomy and etymology
Beaufort's naked-backed fruit bat was described as a new species in 1975 by W. Bergmans. T ...
, ''Dobsonia beauforti''
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Philippine bare-backed fruit bat
The Philippine naked-backed fruit bat or Philippine bare-backed fruit bat (''Dobsonia chapmani'') is a megabat that mostly lives on Negros Island. Two small populations were also found on Cebu Island in the Philippines. Like other bare-backed fru ...
, ''Dobsonia chapmani''
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Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat
The Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat (''Dobsonia crenulata'') is a common and widespread species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Indonesia. The bat's non-Moluccan populations are apparently an undescribed separate sub-spec ...
, ''Dobsonia crenulata''
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Biak naked-backed fruit bat
The Biak naked-backed fruit bat (''Dobsonia emersa'') is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Indonesia.
Taxonomy and etymology
The Biak naked-backed fruit bat was first described as a species in 1985. Its species n ...
, ''Dobsonia emersa''
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Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat, ''Dobsonia exoleta''
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Solomon's naked-backed fruit bat, ''Dobsonia inermis''
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New Guinea naked-backed fruit bat
The New Guinea naked-backed fruit bat (''Dobsonia magna'' or ''Dobsonia moluccensis magna'') is a species of megabat native to Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian islands of Waigeo, Yapen, Batanta, and Misool
Misool, formerly spelled Mysol ( ...
, ''Dobsonia magna''
[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. .
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Lesser naked-backed fruit bat, ''Dobsonia minor''
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Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat
The bare-backed fruit bat or Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat (''Dobsonia moluccensis'') is a fruit bat in the family Pteropodidae.
Taxonomy and etymology
It was described as a new species in 1830 by Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gai ...
, ''Dobsonia moluccensis''
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Panniet naked-backed fruit bat
The Panniet naked-backed fruit bat (''Dobsonia pannietensis''), also known as the De Vis's Bare-backed Fruit Bat and Panaeati Bare-backed Fruit Bat, is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It roosts in groups, within caves and tree ho ...
, ''Dobsonia pannietensis'' (including subspecies ''D. pannietensis remota'' which is sometimes referred to as ''D. remota'')
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Western naked-backed fruit bat
The western naked-backed fruit bat (''Dobsonia peronii'') is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between ...
, ''Dobsonia peroni''
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New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
The New Britain naked-backed fruit bat (''Dobsonia praedatrix'') is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to New Britain island in northern Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Ni ...
, ''Dobsonia praedatrix''
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Greenish naked-backed fruit bat
The greenish naked-backed fruit bat (''Dobsonia viridis'') is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to some of the northeastern Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia, being found on the Kai Islands, the Banda Islands, and the ...
, ''Dobsonia viridis''
Bat genera
Taxa named by Theodore Sherman Palmer
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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