Dobsonia moluccensis

(Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)

Moluccan 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

in D. D'Urville, Voy. "Astrolabe", Zool. /;86, Atlas, pl. 1 1.

Original name as described

Hypoderma moluccensis

Other common names

Bare-backed Fruit Bat · New Guinea Naked-backed Fruit Bat

Type material

MNHN-ZM-AC-A6753 (= MNHN ? 118B)

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/ac-a6753

Type locality

Amboina Island, Maluku (Islands), Indonesia.

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Indonesia

Taxonomy notes

may include D. magna, but the species is tentatively retained here pending further research; D. moluccensis and D. magna likely represents a species complex as currently defined

Taxonomy notes citation

Byrnes, D.G.P. 2005. Evolution among the barebacked fruit bats, Dobsonia (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae). Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. University of Wisconsin, Madison. · Giannini, N.P. 2019. Pteropodidae. In D.E. Wilson and R. Mittermeier (editors), Handbook of the Mammals of the World. 9. Bats: 16–61. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004399

Country distribution map

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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.

Hypoderma moluccensis

(Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

moluccensis

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-AC-A6753 (= MNHN ? 118B)

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/ac-a6753

Authority page

86

Authority publication

Paris

Dobsonia moluccensis

Corbet & J. Edwards Hill, 1980

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

moluccensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

39

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:39) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:113) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #6779) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #6779) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  6. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:108) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004399) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  8. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/84882605/22033630) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Dobsonia moluccensis moluccensis

D. E. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2019

Family

Pteropodidae

Root name

moluccensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

108

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:108) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)

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