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Dobsonia
Sign in to saveDobsonia is a genus of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It contains the following 14 species: 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 Lesser naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia minor Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat, Dobso
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderChiroptera
- FamilyPteropodidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,404
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Pteropodidae
- Collections
- AMNH, ANWC, LACM, NMV
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Indonesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pteropodidae
- Named after
- George Edward Dobson
- Image
- Dobsonia moluccensis - Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria - Genoa, Italy - DSC02537.JPG
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- Category:Dobsonia
- Commons category
- Dobsonia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Dobsonia
- taxon author citation
- Palmer, 1898
- diel cycle
- crepuscular
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Encyclopedic overview
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Dobsonia is a genus of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It contains the following 14 species: 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 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==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dobsonia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.