Bare-backed Fruit-bat

Taxobox
name = Bare-backed Fruit-bat


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image_caption = Bare-backed Fruit-bat
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Chiroptera
familia = Pteropodidae
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genus = "Dobsonia"
species = "D. moluccense"
binomial = "Dobsonia moluccense"
binomial_authority = (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)
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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