Dobsonia Explained

Dobsonia is a genus of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It contains the following 14 species:^[1]

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^[2]
• 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

Notes and References

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. .