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Dobsonia moluccensis

Moluccan Naked-backed Fruit Bat, Greater Naked-backed Bat

As recorded: Dobsonia moluccensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)

Animalia › Chordata › Mammalia › Chiroptera › Pteropodidae

Collected by
P R Swift
Collector number
Collector Number: PRS 028
Locality
Wau, 2 km W, (Wau Ecology Institute grounds)
Region
Papua New Guinea
Coordinates
-7.3400, 146.7071
Identified by
K M Helgen, Jul 2003K.M. Helgen →15 Jul →
Record type
Preserved specimen
90 Bishop specimens of Dobsonia moluccensis · collected 1963–1968Species page ›

Where it was collected

Cite this specimen

Dobsonia moluccensis. BPBM 184686. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 92947866. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/vz/184686.

Record sources

Data-quality notes from GBIF

  • Type status not recognized

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