Dobsonia minor

(Dobson, 1879)

Lesser 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

Dobson, G.E. 1879-04. Notes on recent additions to the collection of Chiroptera in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, with descriptions of new and rare species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1878(4):873-883.

Original name as described

Cephalotes minor

Other common names

Lesser Bare-backed Fruit Bat

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1996-2118

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Amberbaki, [north-west] New Guinea."

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Indonesia · Papua New Guinea

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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