Bare-backed Fruit-bat

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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)

Dobsonia moluccense magna or the Bare-backed Fruit-bat is a fruit bat in the family Pteropodidae. D. moluccense magna is distinctive as its wings joins 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.

[edit] 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>