Bare-backed fruit bat

Bare-backed fruit bat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Dobsonia
Species:
D. moluccensis
Binomial name
Dobsonia moluccensis
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)
Bare-backed fruit bat range
Synonyms
  • Hypoderma moluccensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1830
  • Cephalotes peronii É. Geoffroy, 1810
Dobsonia moluccensis taxidermied specimen at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova in Genoa, Italy

The bare-backed fruit bat or Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia moluccensis) is a fruit bat in the family Pteropodidae.

  1. ^ Tsang, S.M. (2016). "Dobsonia moluccensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T84882605A22033630. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T84882605A22033630.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.