Dobsonia anderseni

O. Thomas, 1914

Andersen's Naked-backed Fruit Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Pteropodiformes
Superfamily : Pteropodoidea
Family : Pteropodidae
Subfamily : Harpyionycterinae
Tribe : Dobsoniini
Genus : Dobsonia

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1914-04-01. On mammals from Manus Island Admiralty Group, and Ruk Island, Bismarck Archipelago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)13(76):434-439.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18641194

Original name as described

Dobsonia anderseni

Other common names

Andersen's Bare-backed Fruit Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1914.4.1.4

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/9c575026-f58f-4a1d-928f-3f94b7e5214e

Type locality

Manus Island, Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea.

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Papua New Guinea

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004391

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Dobsonia anderseni

O. Thomas, 1914

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

anderseni

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1914.4.1.4

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/9c575026-f58f-4a1d-928f-3f94b7e5214e

Authority page

435

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18641194

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:39) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #136374) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #136374) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  5. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:109) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004391) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  7. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136374/22012133) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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