Bare-backed Fruit Bat

Bare-backed Fruit Bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Pteropodidae
Genus:	Dobsonia
Species:	D. moluccense
Binomial name
Dobsonia moluccense (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)
Australian distribution

The Bare-backed Fruit Bat (Dobsonia moluccense) is a fruit bat in the family Pteropodidae.

D. moluccense magna is distinctive as its wings join along the centre of its back rather than its sides giving this bat a ‘hairless’ back. This bat is also unique as it roosts in caves rather than in tree canopies. This species has a mean forearm length of 149 mm, and a mean weight of 374 grams . It is one of 8 Pteropodidaes in Australia.

References

• HERGE 2005, Bats, The Henipavirus Ecology Collaborative Research Group, accessed 7 September 2006 from <http://www.henipavirus.org/virus_and_host_info/virus_and_host_info.htm>

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